I didn’t do too much science in Florida, but I did do some. I spent a day at the Kennedy Space Center, took lots of pictures of birds, and spent a day at a marsh on Amelia Island. I thought that I would share some of these science photos with you. I’m also going to adapt them at some point and update the pictures that cycle in the header of this notebook. Anyways….

Click to see the full glory of all the pictures. Some notes:

• the wildlife in florida seemed extra vivid compared to New Mexico. It provided quite the photo experience.
• the picture of the bald eagle is real! I stood there for about 30 minutes taking pictures waiting for it to fly away. I got one decent picture, but it is a bit blurry. I’m going to try to fix that. It was rather lucky that I came across it in the first place. I was walking with my mom and I told her I wanted to head back. We saw a bench about a tenth of a mile ahead and we decided to go there before turning around. The path turned a corner before approaching the bench and right about the corner in the tree was the bald eagle. Had I just turned around, I would have never seen this magnificent creature.
• Also the Saturn V rocket is real as well, and so is the space shuttle. Obviously the shuttle was reused many times for many missions, but I think the rocket was a test rocket that was never used in a real mission. The bridge though, I think was used on the launchpad.
• The crawler, launchpads, rockets, towers, and vehicle assembly buildings are insanely large objects. It’s almost unfathomable that humans have built such ridiculously large objects. The vehicle assembly building is the world’s largest enclosed space. Apparently the volume inside is large enough to fit 4 Empire State Buildings (but only as tall as half)! Ironically when inside, you almost get that dizzy feeling from looking down, but you are looking up!
• I spent one cloudless night taking pictures of the stars. Most of the pictures came out blurry because I don’t have a remote shutter, except the one of Jupiter. Looking through the viewfinder of my camera, it looked like a smudge. It wasn’t until looking at the picture after did I realize the smudge was actually the Galilean Moons of Jupiter! I took that picture with my 55-250mm zoom lens. Stef has a 10in Dobsonian telescope that I’m going to adapt for my camera. Hopefully I’ll get some kickass pictures.
• I’ll attribute a Creative Commons License to these pictures so anyone can use these pictures however they like. Just say that You heart Anthony’s pictures, and I’ll be happy.