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Route pics

Wow!

You really have an eye when it comes to photography, jasonc !

One suggestion: please add captions so we can know what it is we're looking at.

At any rate, the houses are fascinating.... and the trees are phenomenal! The utility plant pictures were great!
 
Oh, and the very early gasoline pumps are so cool! I've seen a few that were very rusty before they were restored ... the process was amazing
 
The single house.one lot is the oldest in my county.gifford home.
 
AirDancer said:
Wow!

You really have an eye when it comes to photography, jasonc !

One suggestion: please add captions so we can know what it is we're looking at.

At any rate, the houses are fascinating.... and the trees are phenomenal! The utility plant pictures were great!
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The tree stump is about 15ft tall and it's 1000 years old. It was imported to here by Waldo sexton from africa. The banyan tree are beautiful .sexton must have loves thoses. Just about all his works has thoses. That was taken at McKee jungle garden. I need to visit that place and take pics but I do have a lot already just not much of Waldo's two buildings. This is entrance to McKee jungle. The banyan tree is just south. The river pic I took has a mangrove in it and is where I caught my first fish,a blue mackerel.the location of that is just north of the powe plant.when that ran all the day. It drew manatees and jelly fishView attachment 6756
 
jasonc said:
The tree stump is about 15ft tall and it's 1000 years old. It was imported to here by Waldo sexton from africa. The banyan tree are beautiful .sexton must have loves thoses. Just about all his works has thoses. That was taken at McKee jungle garden. I need to visit that place and take pics but I do have a lot already just not much of Waldo's two buildings. This is entrance to McKee jungle. The banyan tree is just south. The river pic I took has a mangrove in it and is where I caught my first fish,a blue mackerel.the location of that is just north of the powe plant.when that ran all the day. It drew manatees and jelly fishView attachment 6756
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Amazing history on the tree stump! And I agree...banyan trees are beautiful!

What an entrance to the McKee jungle! Quite compelling ...... draws one's interest in immediately.

Your first fish was a blue mackerel. Mine was a catfish. My grandfather refused to let me unhook that fish. Believe it or no, I've never taken a fish off a hook ....ever.
 
AirDancer said:
Amazing history on the tree stump! And I agree...banyan trees are beautiful!

What an entrance to the McKee jungle! Quite compelling ...... draws one's interest in immediately.

Your first fish was a blue mackerel. Mine was a catfish. My grandfather refused to let me unhook that fish. Believe it or no, I've never taken a fish off a hook ....ever.
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I have been asked to take more. What I posted yesterday outside of the two homes in the same lot( the one orange or brown in is an old barn and is one of three that I know of) is from the Robalo-Oakmont route. I threw in the power plant, and the others is on Mondays route. So I will post what is on a route that I haven't done and is ww2 stuff. the Hallstrom house as bonus and its barn like the one at the Gifford home that lies rusting. It was used a lot when Ruth Hallstrom was alive.
 
the original McKee jungle was way way bigger. part of that route I do once was part of that. ie vista royal north and south. it was zoo, garden, gators,monkeys,snakes, and flora. it sat for twenty years and the old edifice which I can post if enter again were burned partially and remained intact. the 90 species of water lilies weren't lost and your favorite that he had as well, the forest of 100ft tall palms!
 
AirDancer said:
Wow! Really? 100 ft tall palms ????? Incredible!
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yes one of two. there is one area that still has that. that my palm loving friend is on route that I haven't done in a while.
 
the similiarity to the Driftwood Inn is striking.
 
much of Driftwood inn is still around. its been restored , of course. the man who restored is the only architect who could have ever done that. John Dean, rip. Waldo's a restaurant is also driftwood.
 
the oven behind that is something I didn't get a picture of. this all reminds me of the shire of Biblo baggins.
 
Waldo' secret garden, not where they have the weddings , but the home to the east of that is also similar. I cant get any pics of that. well I could just park on the opposite side of the road and take pics. I don't have enter the property. the owners don't live in that home but in the one they take pics often at the white one that is a mix of a cracker home with a driftwood overhang. leave it to Waldo to do that.
 
consider the stump I have taken a pic off a now and these old images a then. cars have dated that image to about ww2. 40's . if you notice the palms. I'm not sure what type of fossil is shown. I have only seen that once. Barbarian maybe able to tell us.
 
To think how long that stump has remained in place ... it truly is fantastic!

By the way, the WW2 photos are a hoot. Especially the last photo with the stump & fossil. One would almost expect to see Cary Grant trying to steal gasoline in his character as Walter in the movie "Father Goose."
 
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