After arriving in Fort Meyers, Toni (my new supervisor) picked me up and drove me back to Sanibel. On the ride I saw some Wood Storks (WOSTs?). Ty's house is great, it reminds me of the old Waimanalo house I grew up in, with some dust in the window sills, and ants running around fairly unobtrusively, lizards skittering around in the sand outside. Of course the Spoonbills, White Ibises and Anhingas in the yard make me look twice.
I have found the library here on Sanibel, and I think I will be spending lots of time here in the next few weeks while I sort out graduate options and email with potential advisors. I recently was contacted by a UH professor, which has switched around my preferences and left me confused as to what I want to do.
Yesterday on my bike ride home from the library, I saw a young Bald Eagle overhead, then nearly collided with a cattle egret, then saw a Cooper's Hawk circling over Ty's neighborhood, and glanced into the mangroves to notice two Spoonbills dabbling about in the mangrove muck. On my run down to the bay, there was a Great Blue Heron and a Little Blue Heron patrolling the tide line with some fishermen. The Brown Pelicans and some kind of tern surfed the air currents and dove into the ocean for fish.
Ty and Jan come today, it will be fun to explore around with them.