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Right out of the car we had a hint of what was coming. Beautiful flowers on the right, and a guy digging stuff out of a trash can on the left. From the state of his exposure, he must have been a plumber... 

Let's go with the flowers, okay?

I haven't seen a bumblebee in years, we mostly have honeybees in our area.

Bumblebees live in hives in the ground, so it's worth watching where you step when you find a bunch of them, like we did.

This is the second hummingbird of about 10 that we spotted.

Most of them were too fast today... notice he is sticking out his tongue at me!

This little guy sat on the railing and let me walk up within about 8 feet before taking off.

While on the other side of the dock, a seagull was taking a taste of a fish head that had been tossed from a boat being pulled up the launching ramp.

The vegan seed-eaters were horrified! Imagine eating a fish head (I could almost hear them exclaiming).

They eat much smaller stuff and it's an endless quest as they peck their way across the dirt.

Speaking of dirt, we rarely photography the ground we are walking on but this was an unusual day. We found an area raked in grid patterns.

Then grids set into an expanding pie-slice of a circle, bounded by concrete paths.

And not far from there, a mini-Stonehenge!

I'm sure this runner was unaware of the significance of these lines (possibly the dolphin offshore were communicating through this grid)

Did this cyclist understand the astral significance of the patterns, or was he celebrating a personal best, all by himself (we were out of his sight). BTW his gloves don't match -- why?

Personal Best went past and another guy in blue appeared, carrying a black bag, a pillow, a skateboard, two phones, some other stuff, and was texting while riding.

A multi-tasker!

I turned my attention to the flowers, then my wife began to shout MOSQUITOS.

We had walked into a swarm greater than I have ever seen in my life. They were near a swampy area where a pipe had broken and flooded a small section of the park. This tree was benefiting from the moisture but we couldn't stick around. I think I took about two dozen landings on my legs but we managed to slap them off ourselves without getting too many bites. Sorry, no photos -- I'm not THAT motivated.

Our Park Department loves to put up signs;

there should be a mosquito WARNING sign.

After we outran the attack, I checked the time -- this is my Seiko 7T59 1/100th second chrono, and normally I can never see the 100th hand (gold). But here it is almost stopped for your viewing pleasure.

This watch was made from 1991-92 and I think my variant is one of the best looking. The 7t59 movement was the first analog quartz chronograph with 1/100th second, plus day-date and GMT with 10bar water resistance.

Creepy alien plant!

The architecture shot; those towers are about 1.5 miles from where I took the picture of the gazebo.

The dock seemed quite long too and you can see the blue gazebo and towers in the distance.

Our first boat of the day:

The second one:

This was the last one!

Goodbye.

PS --  this just in:

Good morning Michael,

Thank you for your report and picture of the precise location where you observed the mosquitoes. I went out to the infestation area by South Shores on Wednesday (8/24). I did see the area that looked like swamp between the bike path and concrete path. I observed mosquito breeding and treated it with a bacterial larvicide. I’m not quite sure why there is water there, but it will be closely monitored by the team. If it is still holding water within the next 2-3 weeks, then it will become one of our routine mosquito treatment sites which are inspected and treated monthly.  If you have any questions, you can always reach out to me or you can email the general Vector team. Once again, thank you so much for bringing it to our attention. Have a great day.

Cool! A government agent who is responsive and informative!

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