Kennedy Space Center

Day 3 - "Cold Sunrise" - Low

This morning I got up at half six (the stars were still out) and walked down to the water. Sat and read a book for two and a half hours as my camera took a timelapse of the sunrise.

There are lots of little fish in the water that like jumping out in the funniest looking way. I saw the heron catch a fish and eat it too. There were lots of americans doing early morning fishing, I didn't see one of them catch anything.

Also, at about the moment when the sun first touched the water, a school of dolphins went past, their fins and tails gently popping out of the water, an incredible site!

Now I'm sat in the campsite having some buffalo chicken tenders and fresh orange for breakfast. Someone else on the site is cooking bacon, the bastards, and it smells lovely. These flipflops are killing my feet so I'm off to Titusville later to get some propper shoes!

The launch has been put of from Monday till Wednesday now (and if it doesn't happen then it will be delayed till December) so might go to the Kennedy Space Center today!

-- The squirrels here are Tiny! They are gray, but half the size of our british ones, they seem really playfull too :)

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Spent all day at the Space centre. Had a go on a shuttle simulator, which was really quite scary! Wobbled me all over the place (Hmmm, maybe need to loose some weight). And the Saturn V rocket they have there (real and full size) is SO big you would not beleive. Finally got myself a hat (flippin necessary in this weather!). The launch has been put back till Wednesday because of the weather, although I don't know why, cause it's still clear blue skys and too hot. - Got to see the shuttle (or at least the main engine of it) waiting on the launch pad, next to a huge "Liquid Oxygen" container with the words "No Smoking" in mile high letters :) - The ladys next door want me to try some kind of "Bean" meal tonight!

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The Bean meal last night was nice. It turns out in Louisiana (where they are all from) it is tradition that housewives who have lots of laundry to do on a Monday morning (washing everyone's church clothes) will put some beans into soak in the morning, and by the afternoon they are ready. So a nice simple meal. Was still nice!