Feb. 27 - Wed.

Today was a sunny, but chilly morning. We went to the office to pay for the extra night and was told that they could give us the other extra night we needed, but that we would have to move to a different site across from where we were because the site we were on was reserved for that night. So we took it (I'm not all that keen about staying on a Walmart parking lot,although a lot of RV'ers told us that they have) While we were in the office we noticed a sign up for a 3hr river cruise on a pontoon boat for that morning and as luck would have it, they had 2 cancellations while.we were in there. The boat only holds 7 passengers & the driver. It was a very relaxing ride & we saw alligators, turtles, blue heron birds, a lot of big fish and a group of monkeys! Yes monkeys! They were brown & white and there were also babies. The driver said we were lucky because the monkeys were not always visible. He said the monkeys were brought here years ago when the movie Tarzan was being made here and somehow they escaped from the movie crew and have populated and lived here since. It is estimated that there are several hundred here now. A couple on the cruise told us about Rainbow park in Donnellon (about 45min away) where they have river tubing We decided to go check it out. When we got there there was a sign posted at the entrance that it was not opened for the season yet. But it was a nice ride there & back.