Morning cammers,
the cams may be all black now but there is stuff going on..... thought you might like to see..

Very neat, Bas! Where was this taken and when? Great shot! There is always something going on when we "think" it is all quiet outside. Beautiful set up on the photo with gorgeous colors and activity. Thanks again for keeping us entertained at this late hour of the night! Carole

Ah - a sweet little bat pollinating the bananas for us! And getting a sip of nectar in the deal. Mother Nature never sleeps. Thank you, Bas!

First light:

Hey Bas - why don't you take the spotty dogs and the terror for a walk by the street cams?

Here's an "edgie":

GHOTI:

Morning All - Here comes the sun.

Thought I'd check in for a minute before we run out to the Kiwanas pancake breakfast (just a few days late for pancake day).

Morning BTer's Guess what today is??

early morning visitor!!

Could this be Bas' Mini??

Here they are leaving...

Where did everyone go????

Freddie is this your "birdday"?

Bas great Bat picture...what are you doing out and about in the wee hours of the morning...?

It's the Turducken party at Jake & Linda's.

No Meryl TODAY IS TURDUCKEN DAY at Jake and Linda's house

whhoo whoo..silly me!.I wonder if they will have the back cam on

Well I'm glad I wasn't the only one that remembered Cindy especially since I have Senior moments now and then

I was hoping for that too. That way everyone there could hold up a sign with their name on it so we could put faces on these posts!!

only time will tell,,,weather looks good for an outside gala event!

Here I am, Freddie - went back to bed at 7-ish. Weird being up before the chickens!



So - what day could it be?

96 days to go for me!Carole are ya starting to pack yet!?

Maybe they could hold up signs with OUR names on them and we could feel special! LOL

Dogwatch:

the mini picture above could have been Bas delivering the COCONUT FISH

Parrots!

fun day ahead...wish I was there...

original dolphin moved guess it doesnt work when you cut and paste!

Hi Meryl - yup, you need a little gizmo called a gif animator. There are bunches of them available as shareware at tucows.com and download.com. They take two or more pix and put them together like a flip-book. Many have a wizard - so you just choose the pix and tell it to go! I use an old one called GifCon.

One shot diver:

A couple of worshipers and a diver that got missed.

Thanks Rusty! will check it out....I'm still in the flinstone era with computer stuff

If you can unzip a file - I can email you the GifCon - it's about a half a MB (five minute download or so at 28.8) and has a wizard.

great sending you my email

nope your home page doesnt work

rclark@map.com - I removed it after the *finger* guy... LOL

heres the email...
sgiamporcaro@comcast.net

some fishies geeting ready to party

Wrasses and wrasses:

I guess I missed the finger guy...hope he doesnt come my way...doesnt sound to plesant

I think it's going to be a busy day at the gate!!

He was the same day as Marc Moonfish - but we didn't post him.

More wrasses - look like they're going somewhere:



Neat shot of a ?Stoplight Parrotfish:

Looks like this fishy:

heyy

The bat pic was taken in my back yard (down the street from the cams) about 1-1/2 years ago. I have another one, will scan it one of these days and post it.
Why up so late??... just came back from town.. been out cruising in the min.. while I was waiting for my chat friend in New Zealand to come on-line thought it would be nice to post a different picture.
The coconut fish soup is doing well :-) Went to Jake's this morning to shred the coconut. Normally do it by hand but Jake kindly offered his Kitchenaid which was GREAT help(15 coconuts is a LOT of grating by hand) Right now we're in the process of cutting all the veggies... yucca, pumpkin, onion, carrot, palmhearts, green onion, sweet potato, red pepper, parcely, bean sprouts, corn on the cob and leeks. The fish is Wahoo (Mulatu)... 5 big fish heads.. soon to be sorted out aarrrrrr ;-)
Should come out to be 15 gallons of soup...2 big lobster pans,.. figure thats enough!? hehehe lol
Some for tonight, some I freeze for later and some goes to friends...

better get busy again
Bas

ps.. here's a pic taken during Lenny about 200 yards down south from the web cams... sad day :-(

Wave your arms or something to activate the light out there!

Thanks Rusty! just got it....
Bas...your making us hungry!

Sounds like you should post the recipe Bas, Sounds real yummy!!!

Mornin gang...Ok, again, as I am "ink blot" challenged...I don't see a bat, it looks like Patrick from spongebobsquarepants...where is the bat, where is the banana tree, where is the nectar...please...driving me crazy...

Hi Cynde - the big purple thing is the banana flower/pod (whatever). If you look to the right, you'll see the bats wing (kinda purple veined), his foot is about midway down the pod. If you look closely in the yellow area at the top, you can see his nose and ear.

Hey Cynde - for the biologically-impaired LOL:

thanks cindy, whew...i really was feeling left out that i couldn't see him!...is it the left side of the bat we are seeing,and you don't see his front foot do you? his nose is pushed up in the flower, right?

I think Rusty's explanation says it all. LOL

Cindy - an opportunity to use my degree! Yay! LOL I remember once looking at a Gary Larson cartoon with apes and banana plants and the bunches were drawn UPSIDE DOWN. Years later I was reading an article on him and he mentioned that he got TONS of mail from biologists about that particular mistake he made - it bugged him, too, because he liked accuracy in his work.

Rusty, this is a picture taken at the downtown Lakeland Gardens on Christmas Day. They have a ton of bananas, we just have grapefruit and key limes.

Cindy! Great shot. Wonder if they were bat-pollinated? Nothing like the apple orchards up this way, huh?

Great Pics....awwwwwwwwww i should be there now....bummmer 2 years plus to go...lol, gotto be there before the grey hairs set in...lol