On Independence Day Winter Garden has a different style parade to many towns, where children get to parade, walking or on scooters or being pushed in strollers – all patriotically dressed; an easy 10 minute walk for us from home downtown to watch and enjoy:
And here is some video:
Our final day, leaving the hotel after lunchtime to fly back to Lima and then home, needed some careful travel planning due to it being a BIG festival day! Here are some photos before we left:
I’ve not included photos of celebrations we saw earlier in the trip, in Ollantaytambo, so I will include them here:
I also assembled various videos I recorded of the celebrations, to a single YouTube video:
We took a trip to Oakland Nature Preserve yesterday, and spotted three or four small alligators in the water either side of the boardwalk close to Lake Apopka … took a few photos, and a short video as well. There was also an amazing bird box taken over by bees that apparently had run out of room inside and were building an “annex”!
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