Avon Park

This place where I am working, Avon Park, is a bizarre juxtaposition of federal land use. Most of it is an airforce bombing range, but there are quite a few other things going on here. Some land is devoted to a wildlife refuge/conservation area. Other tracts here and there are rented out to cattle farmers as grazing land. When you first get past the entry gate there is a park area with campsites and lake access. Right after the camping area lies the juvenile detention facility on the north side of the road and the adult correctional facility to the south. I'm not so sure all those things logically go together or belong in the same place. It's kind of like the goverment had an all purpose chunk of land in the middle of Florida where it's hot and not very scenic (except by the lake) and they decided to use it in as many ways as possible.

Yesterday, during a downpour over lunch, we visited the juvenile delinquent staffed bowling alley / cafeteria. Most of us got our lunch there. It was actually pretty good and they even had a fresh salad bar.

Today and tomorrow have become our weekend because some bombing exercises prohibit us working on the range. It is nice to have a couple days off, but to make up for it we are working seven days in a row next week. Yummy.