Central Florida: Aug 27-29, 2006

Day 1 : Aug 27, 2006

Titusville and vicinity


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Vehicle Assembly Building from Kennedy Point Park (9.0 mi) (56k)

Launch Pad 39B (11.7 mi) (72k)

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Great Blue Heron (56k)

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Osprey with lunch (44k)

Dragonfly in flight (24k)

Osprey (56k)

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White Ibis (168k)

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White Peacock (Anartia jatrophae) (136k)

Black Swallowtail female (Papilio polyxenes) (64k)

Roseate Spoonbills (32k)

Bald Eagle? (24k)

VAB from Scottsmoor Landing (17.3 mi) (60k)

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Eastern Pygmy Blue (Brephidium isophthalma) (72k)

Great Southern White (Ascia monuste) (84k)

Launch Pad 39B from Scottsmoor Landing (16.8 mi) (68k)

Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus) (112k)

Great White Heron (136k)

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Wood Stork (104k)

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Turkey Vulture (24k)

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Black Swallowtail male (Papilio polyxenes) (120k)

Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) (120k)

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Giant Swallowtail (Heraclides cresphontes) (120k)

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Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) (72k)

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Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charitonius) (72k)

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Manatee tail (120k)

Manatee snout (112k)

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from Kennedy Point Park (76k)

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Day 2 : Aug 28, 2006

Ocala - Cedar Key


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Spicebush Swallowtail (Papilio troilus) (224k)

Palamedes Swallowtail (Papilio palamedes) (84k)

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Cormorant (60k)

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Sponge fishing boat (120k)

Lighthouse on Atsena Otie Key (108k)

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Frigatebirds (196k)

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Nesting pelican w/baby (292k)

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Mosquito hell. 40+ bites in under 5 minutes :( (216k)

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Roseate Spoonbills (152k)

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Day 3 : Aug 29, 2006

Kennedy Point Park - Shuttle Rollback (Atlantis STS-115)


9:22AM EDT (72k)

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10:51AM (rollback started 10:04) (96k)

11:03AM (80k)

2:11PM (88k)

From the air...


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12:13PM (40k)

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