Gopher Tortoise Hunting

Jennifer, Monica and I spent most of today hunting for gopher tortoise burrows. It's alot of tramping around in about 1400 acres of forests with scrubby sand and live oak, saw tooth palmetto and a variety of other brush looking for holes in the ground with wide aprons of sandy soil. It's even worse than looking for a needle in a haystack! It was a beautiful fall day here, though, so it was nice to be in the woods. Temperatures are only rising to the mid-80s most days, and a north breeze is keeping things cool, even in the woods. The beach in the morning is positively chilly, at least for me!