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Booker Creek Park

Booker Creek Park

Alligators and wildlife live among us here in St Petersburg. Booker Creek Park is only a few minutes ride from my apartment and is the playground for a pod of alligators. It’s a little alarming to experience them in the open like that for the first time. Knowing that they can and do injur people [...]

[ More ] April 23rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Outdoors |
Alligators

Alligators

I have successfully returned will all my limbs attached from Booker Creek Park in St. Petersburg, Florida. For your viewing pleasure here are the alligators that some of you had trouble seeing in an earlier post. The first photo is a wide angle shot of the two alligators, next is a zoomed and cropped version [...]

[ More ] April 8th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Outdoors |
St. Petersburg Grand Prix

St. Petersburg Grand Prix

St. Petersburg held its grand Prix this weekend. I had the chance to watch some of the time trials and testing of the cars. Way way way loud. Way fast! Way fun. Although I shot several videos with the iPhone I had a technical glitch with the microphone, which added white noise distortion to the [...]

[ More ] April 4th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Outdoors, Social Activities |
STS-119

STS-119

Tonight’s launch of the space shuttle Discovery was beautiful.   This is the third launch that I have seen from about 150 miles away.  It takes nearly 30 seconds from the time of main engines light to when it comes up over the horizon.   There was a group of about 100 people that watched [...]

[ More ] March 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Featured, Sci-Fi, Technology, Thoughts |
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