Georgia on my…Magnus? Day 15

Wednesday, February 25 

This was our space center day. The drive over there was very short, just ten minutes or so. It was a cool place but the “rides” (simulated) were very disappointing. In the particular the one which was supposed to be so realistic that actual astronauts had declared that it felt just like the real thing?  It was lame. Yeah, you did get a brief feeling of movement and one of weightlessness, but nothing like the ones we did at Epcot Center.

Other than the rides, we got to take a bus over to see the rocket launch pads and we could see Artemis moving, or so they claimed. At seven miles an hour at a distance, could we?  And we got to stand underneath the blast of a rocket launching (simulated, of course). And there were a lot of science exhibits (and yes, this is rocket science!), but we didn’t spend much time viewing them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So it was way too expensive for the half day we spent. Sad. Oh, well.

During the drive I noticed that lot of plants look like the recent frost here killed them. Especially the little palm trees, annuals, and stuff like that.

There were tons of ducks out on the river. Laughing gulls, Reddish Egret, White Ibis, bluebirds, robins, fish crows, jays. We did see eagles nesting in the wildlife refuge on the way to the rocket launch.  Also a gator in a roadside ditch.

 

 

 The same building as earlier, seen across the Indian River.