Triple Treat Tour July 2016 Day 14 Boats, Cars, Karts and No Lobster

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The previous day is HERE

Saturday 16 July

I was first awake at 6 and sat outside with a coffee writing up my notes and just enjoying the morning peace. These are the holiday moments that you wish you could bottle for those dreary grey days – just like today in fact. Bank holiday Saturday and its tiddling down

We have a lazy morning at the pool and set off at 1130 for Bob Evans



Wow, its really busy

It takes 20 minutes to get seated

And 30 minutes for food to arrive which we had to throw down our necks as we were by now running short of time for our drive to the Wild Florida airboat ride.

Jamie and I had Farmers Choice breakfasts with the luscious brioche toast





Andy had the sunshine skillet open omelette



Connor and Nick had ham and cheese melt sandwiches



The food was delicious.

I didn't get a pic of the receipt but it was fab value. $55 inc the drinks

We had allowed an hour to get to Wild Florida and we certainly needed it

Just so much traffic and omg, how many jeffing traffic lights :angry:are there – it just seemed endless, every light went red as we got there.

The sat nav had a fit and had us going in a big loop, which meant we in fact ended up seeing the Loop for the first time, looked nice but not when you are in a rush !

It was really stressy

As we got out onto the quieter roads, people drive very slowly

They were not on a schedule

We were

So we needed them to speed up a bit

It was not a relaxing drive at all but Andy did really well to get us there for 1.50 – just enough time to register for our 2pm boat ride



It has been years since we did an airboat ride and that was in 2010 at Boggy Creek

These tix had come free with our Attractions Tickets Direct order so we had no real expectations

It was brill !


Andy quite fancied one of these




We had the back row and Connor and Andy were in single seats

They got mega sunburn on their legs !



It was really hard to take pics as we were whizzing along so fast

It was great though seeing the birds and enjoying the view









We did see a mummy gator minding her nest and a young gator swam out in front of us

She’s hiding in here – she looks tiny but was apparently about 8 foot long !





We could see this on the other side of the lake – that’s where we are heading back – looks rainy !



Love these creepy trees



All too soon our 30 minutes were over , it had been great fun

Ladies, Airboat tip, don’t wear pale coloured cotton shorts

The seats are plastic

It is very hot

You will sweat

A lot

So when you get off , it will look like you wet yourself with sweat

There will be patches on the back of your shorts

Nightmare

I can speak from experience !