Florida 98

While we were visiting Florida in the summer of 1998 they were experiencing some very bad wildfires.  We had originally gone to Florida to visit and to attend the Pepsi 400 NASCAR Winston Cup race, but the race race was postponed because of the fires.   We were staying at Suzy's father's house and had to be evacuated to a hotel for a couple of days.  When we were returning home we saw some huge smoke in the sky and went to investigate.  It turned out if was the novelty and firecracker store at the intersection of US 1 and Interstate 95, so we grabbed our Sony Mavica digital camera and popped a shots.

We arrived at the scene of this fire at about the same time as the fire trucks.  The firemen were not able to save this building.

Suzy's dad has a pool and boathouse in his backyard and is frequented by all kinds of wildlife.  We often see baby manatees and alligators when we are there.  He's a shot of a baby alligator catching some afternoon sun.  I apologize in advance for the "fuzzy" photograph.  I guess the water was giving the autofocus a hard time.