Team Leip Travels

29 July 2026 Hollywood: A Few New Birds and Meeting Max for Dinner

On our drive around Hollywood I heard a new bird and got a picture of it to boot. It was a Gray Kingbird and that got me thinking of possible new birds to be found at the park on the north end of Dania Beach. The sandpipers that I was looking for come out at low tide and that worked out just fine as I had some time available in the afternoon. I did get a new bird there and it was the Semipalmated Sandpiper. A great pair of new birds as I approach 1000 total birds.

A new kind of invasive lizard species

Red Bellied woodpecker

A starling

The Kingbird has an impressive beak

Nice plumage too

At low tide the wading birds come out

My new sandpiper

The semipalmated sandpiper

Fancy for the beach

Fort Lauderdale to Bangkok

No shortage of hootch

A street food decor

Spich please

Cheers!

Leslie's dish

More salmon!

It was great catching up with Max

We missed him last time and there was much to catch up about

Full moon fever

It has been 4 years and 47 days since we began our Migration

29 July 2026 Hollywood: A Change of Scenery

We get very frustrated with our AirBnB, first no coffee cups, then no washing machine and then the door sot stuck and would not open. After a good bit of back and forth we managed to settle with the host for everything we wanted. A full refund on the remaining three days, a credit for the cleaning fee of $140 and we packed everything up and left. We moved a short way south to the Costa Hollywood Resort. It was less than $50 extra per day so we decided it was going to work for us. We checked in, managed to get lost inside the north tower and eventually we found our room #409. the view from our new room was life changing, no more claustrophobia, lots of room to spread out and a pool to boot.n We could not check in until later and so we took a cruise around Hollywood and saw our old haunts.

New construction

A big sea wall is going in

A large house, formerly on the right, came down

Birds in Joe DiMaggio Park

Our first look at the Costa condo hotel

I called the bunk beds

Lots of light and a sea view for Leslie

We could see where there had been a fire in the condo just south of us

It was the start of the lobster mini-season and there were boats everywhere!

The hallway

Heading over the 3rd story walkway over to the pool

Nice setup

A decent sized pool

We will be back to soak

Sunset bar

North lake

It has been 4 years and 47 days since we began our Migration

28 July 2026 Hollywood: A Beach Day

We slept in as long as we could. No coffee cups at the AirBnb, grrrr! No information on the visas, day 92 and counting. We took our chairs over to the beach and got rained on. So we headed back had a sandwich and went back out. We got rained on again so we went back in, showered, and strolled some more on the broadwalk and eventually we found ourselves at Opa Taverna. We were scheduled to meet up with Keith and Jacob but they were niot feeling soo great so they canceled. Opa was tasty and we then walked over to Gorgio's market for a dessert. We then got out of the tiny AirBnB and sat along the broadwalk people watching. We notices several large groups of young adults walking along the beach. Perhaps a big school group visiting from South America? Another beautiful day in Hollywood.