This was a photo I snapped from the driver's seat a few years ago on my way driving up to Disney...a very clean and cool old '40s car makin' the road trip that stuck with me for nearly the entire 2 hour trip north on the Turnpike: Pretty cool car to take a road trip in! I'm starting to think about 'on the road' pictures since I'll be seeing this scenery again in just over a week...I love the drive up to Disney so much, it almost ranks as a Disney Ride! I've seen many things on my way up to Disney - accidents, thunderstorms, waterspouts, old cars, supercars, sports game caravans, motorcycle gangs, airplanes landing on the highway, alligators, snakes, deer, raccoons, possum, armadillo, vultures, falcons, every kind of wading bird, cows, horses, tractors, oranges, hitchhikers, floods, fires, hurricane damage, and evacuation jams. I've driven back from Disney in the wings of a hurricane, and driven up to Disney during a landfalling hurricane. I've gone through flooded streets, and through smoke so thick you couldn't see your hood. I've done the trip in under 2 1/2 hours door-to-door, and well over 5 hours door-to-door. When it comes to Disney, I'm like the Post Office - Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night...
Dillo? Dead or alive? What the heck is a dillo doing over there? I know they've made it as far north as Illinois on their way to world domination, but I'd never heard of Florida.
OH, we have LOTS of armadillos, dead and alive. They don't quite outnumber the possums, but they are plentyful. Ever stay in Ft Wilderness Campground? They're all over that place! I used to enjoy going for late night walks in the campground after a day in the parks, and watch the armadillos come out of the brush and walk directly into my leg if I stood still. Intelligent they are not. The possums seem to largely outnumber the armadillos in South Florida - we don't see as many as we used to 10 years ago - but as you drive north to central Florida, you start to see them in larger numbers once you get north of Lake Okeechobee. I think down here in South Florida, they've got too much competition, and a few too many predators (namely gators, panthers, bears, and pythons). They came in larger numbers in the '70s, but by the '90s, they had been put on the official food chain of several larger beasts, and it's been downhill since. The possums and raccoons have the advantage of much better climbing skills!
my only knowledge of armadillo's here in the northeast came by way of the commander live from the armadillo world headquarters
