Muddy Manatees

Innocently out biking in some neighborhoods this morning I stop under a tree for a drink and what do I spy? Manatees! Four of them swimming around, rolling over each other and snorting in some very shallow, very muddy water at the end of a waterway. I stayed for quite a while watching. The most I saw of them at any one time was either what you see above or the snout and sometimes a whole head. Oh and their tails would swoop out of the water every now and again too. 

I also helped convince a momma duck that she and her babies really did not want to cross the busy road but would rather swim in the ravine. And on my way home as I was climbing the bridge I had to stop pedalling to gawk at the schools of large fish frolicking in the shallows. How so much wildlife manages to coexist with so many people amazes me!