Jarvis Park - on Hilton Head Island
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shadowkatOn Thursday, we went to Jarvis Park - which is a 53-acre park and includes a large pond, fishing pier, open fields, picnic shelters, playground, restroom facilities, an one-mile walking trail and workout stations.
Pathways extend all over the park and around the lake creating a one-mile loop. The lakeside paths extend out into wooded areas. The paved trail is equipped with wooden bridges over marshy areas, so no one has to get their feet too dirty.
It's a sanctuary for water fowl and alligators.
Here's an alligator sunning himself next to a white egret. Friendly neighbors.
I walked around the lake and creek, while mother sat on a swinging bench and read in the sunshine and breeze. She's walked around the park with myself, my niece, brother and father hundreds of times. And her hip was bothering her a little - she has osteoarthritis - or bone on bone arthritis.
The lake had lots of egrets - all flocked together.
And a slightly better picture of the alligator. The island has alligators all over - they are not present in the ocean. Just in the lagoons, and creeks, and lakes mostly. My parents have them in the lagoons at their retirement center. Mostly harmless - unless you try to feed them (they have signs not to do this) or walk your pet too close to a lagoon or let your pet off a leash and they decide to frolic in a lake or nearby lagoon with an alligator in it. They do like to eat little doggies. More than one idiot has lost a dog by walking them a wee bit too close to a lagoon or allowing them off the leash into one.
And here's another picture. (Note I used a telescopic lens on my phone - I wasn't that close.)
And yes, the sky was that clear and that blue the whole time I was there. We got a little rain on Friday afternoon - for about twenty minutes, per down pour. But that was mainly it, also a little on Saturday when I arrived.
And the yellow daisies were in full bloom...fall on the island is rather pretty.
And finally...the egret standing sentry on the posts of the dock. There were actually two of them on both posts - but I couldn't take a good picture of it - the posts were too far apart. The egrets were so still they looked like statues, and when they took off - I was somewhat startled by the sudden movement.
Pathways extend all over the park and around the lake creating a one-mile loop. The lakeside paths extend out into wooded areas. The paved trail is equipped with wooden bridges over marshy areas, so no one has to get their feet too dirty.
It's a sanctuary for water fowl and alligators.
Here's an alligator sunning himself next to a white egret. Friendly neighbors.
I walked around the lake and creek, while mother sat on a swinging bench and read in the sunshine and breeze. She's walked around the park with myself, my niece, brother and father hundreds of times. And her hip was bothering her a little - she has osteoarthritis - or bone on bone arthritis.
The lake had lots of egrets - all flocked together.
And a slightly better picture of the alligator. The island has alligators all over - they are not present in the ocean. Just in the lagoons, and creeks, and lakes mostly. My parents have them in the lagoons at their retirement center. Mostly harmless - unless you try to feed them (they have signs not to do this) or walk your pet too close to a lagoon or let your pet off a leash and they decide to frolic in a lake or nearby lagoon with an alligator in it. They do like to eat little doggies. More than one idiot has lost a dog by walking them a wee bit too close to a lagoon or allowing them off the leash into one.
And here's another picture. (Note I used a telescopic lens on my phone - I wasn't that close.)
And yes, the sky was that clear and that blue the whole time I was there. We got a little rain on Friday afternoon - for about twenty minutes, per down pour. But that was mainly it, also a little on Saturday when I arrived.
And the yellow daisies were in full bloom...fall on the island is rather pretty.
And finally...the egret standing sentry on the posts of the dock. There were actually two of them on both posts - but I couldn't take a good picture of it - the posts were too far apart. The egrets were so still they looked like statues, and when they took off - I was somewhat startled by the sudden movement.
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