This is a shot of a small pond/lake accessed under the road via the Hillsboro canal. I spent the morning on a  Ganoo, a "John boat-canoe" cross with a 25 Yamaha outboard. This is always a great experience. To be on the water and close up to nature, for me, is always very, very exciting. As the early morning sun rose, the temperature touched 80 degrees even at 8.30 and sun-screen was a requirement. There were a few Heron and Ibis feeding on the banksides and Grackles, as usual were very vocal.  Along the banks, sunning on the rocks were numerous Iguanas.

This one was gravid and you can see the obvious shapes of eggs distorting the abdomen. 

She was obviously about to lay her eggs in the bankside where they are incubated by natural, ambient heat and hatch in July. Close up, I was fascinated by the "dinosaur-like" look of the head and frilled back of this 2 foot long, non-native reptile.

Last year we had seen a Green Heron nest just tucked away in a small inlet. So as we passed by the same area yesterday I casually remarked that we should look in the same place just to check again. Surprise, surprise there was a nest again with just one egg, a lovely wedgwood blue, about the size of a small pullet egg. The nest was entirely of sticks and seemingly just balanced on the branches. There was no sign of a parent so perhaps it had been deserted this year.

 Zac, throwing a cast-net from the deck of his "access all areas" ganoo.