Gulf Island National Seashore, Florida
It was the end of a long day's drive and I was happy to find the that the Park Service campground had a few sites available. And I was especially happy having just spotted my first alligator while pulling into this campground. With the prospect of stormy weather coming this looked like a good place to hole up for a day while the storm passed. What could go wrong?
I had just parked and got "camp" set up which really amounts to hardly nothing. I heated a pot of water, brewed a cup of tea then stepped out to walk around a little bit.
Right off I spotted this stone by the tree in camp that had all the appearances of a tombstone marker. That's odd, I thought to myself. I walked over to it and saw it was blank. Perhaps the writing is on the other side and I set about trying to flip it over with my foot since I had my tea cup in my hand. When it flipped over the leaves stuck to it and so I brushed the leaves away with my foot. Huh, gold colored mud. Then I realized it wasn't mud sticking the leaves to the stone, it was dog poop! Someone covered their dog's deposit with this stone and I now had "gold colored mud" on my shoe!
I was wearing flip-flops.
10 comments:
Ha the discoveries while traveling makes very good stories.
Splendid!
There is no possibility of a good end to this story!
Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne
Yek, what a story, gold mud! What did you do with your flip-flops, burried them at the tree?
You found treasure! Lucky you that you used your feet instead of your hands :)
Damn dog probably was surprised by an alligator--that definitely would scare the poop out of me.
laughing. just laughing.
I feel for you John... on most of my walks I always see plastic bags with dog poo in them. The owners pick up the mess while others are around then throw it when nobodies watching.
Sorry to hear that John.
I wish everyone would pick up their litter.
Peace :)
EW!!!!
Sory ... But too funny !
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