December 2018 - The Everglades
Our second day in the Everglades (first here) was spent down in the southern part of the park. We spent most of the day canoeing at the 9-mile pond canoe trail, and then did a few boardwalk hikes.
After this, our Florida road trip continued down to the Keys.
Our second day in the Everglades (first here) was spent down in the southern part of the park. We spent most of the day canoeing at the 9-mile pond canoe trail, and then did a few boardwalk hikes.
After this, our Florida road trip continued down to the Keys.
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| Canoeing through the river of grass | Some great canoeing through the mangroves | |
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| Entering a mangrove tunnel | ||
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| Canoe selfie! | A larger lake | |
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| An alligator checking us out as we canoe by | ||
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| A red-shouldered hawk out on our canoe trail | A boardwalk hike through a hardwood hammock | |
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| The everglades. So much grass. | Part of a dwarf cypress forest. They have really interesting fat trunks right at the base. | |
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| Some alligators catching the last sun of the day by the trail | An alligator through the lillies | |
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| A purple gallinule running around the lily pads | ||
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| The sun setting on the everglades | A really large group of white pelicans all fishing together | |
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| He caught one! | ||
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| A wood stork. Ugly! | A green heron | Trees full of herons |
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| An eastern phoebe |
An alligator swimming through the lillies.