Wow, it seems TDP has quite the Florida contingent. Thanks for all the great suggestions everyone! Definitely sounds like this is shaping up to be a good trip.

Hopefully the birds there are not too timid...the longest lens I'll be bringing is a 70-200 F4 IS with 1.4x teleconverter. I'm renting a 6d for the trip as well, so I won't even have the range I'm used to with the 7d. Should work well for the ocean views and architecture of St. Augustine though. And as for gators...I'm not sure I want to get that close in the wild...maybe in one of those gator parks though.

Quote Originally Posted by Busted Knuckles
Orlando, to St. A, to Clearwater, to Ft Myers, to Miami is A LOT of car time.
Yeah, that was one of my initial concerns, but our 3-month-old does really well in the car so hopefully it should all go well. And the way we have it planned we're travelling a little bit each day, so we don't have any real long driving stretches. I'm actually more concerned about how Andrew will cope with the heat...we've got lots of sunscreen and shade/sun-protection, but it is still much hotter than we're used to here in Newfoundland. And since Andrew is only 3-months old, he certainly hasn't been in that kind of heat before. That's why I'm thinking the driving in the car with the AC could be a blessing.

Now...time to start putting all these locations in my gps...

Stephen