GATORS N BOATS - JUNE 5, 2011
We made a little road trip through a corner of the huge Everglades. Since we lacked proper pith helmets for real explortion we decided to stay on the boardwalk nature trails (heheheh). At the first place we stopped, gators seemed to be common. What we found seemed to be a concentration of them. There has been a drought and the rainy season has not yet begun. Consequently, water levels were low and completely missing over large areas. Among the gators we saw a few turtles and a big population of fish, which included alligator gars. We observed gators slowly sinking out of sight to the murky bottom. On a couple of occasions the water exploded as a gator would rush up to snap up a fish. We found a flip-flop at the water's edge and wondered if it was from a recent victim (heheheh).
During our walks we found too many things to write about here. A few included wild native orchids, curtains of hanging tree moss, tree balls and tree turds (not shown - heheheh). There were common egrets, herons and some beautiful birds that we couldn't identify without a reference at hand. We watched for panthers but didn't see any in the middle of the day. We did however spot some white tail deer. 
Our road trip brought us to a swamp air boat location from which we went out for an hour. We wound through narrow gaps in the mangroves and a veritable jungles with a myriad of plants. We investigated some gator dens and nests along the way. There were gar everywhere and many types of birds. We saw a pair of dead trees side by side that had rather large holes in them. A resident woodpecker showed up at one of the holes when we drifted by. Okay, okay. Suffice it to say that we had a great Everglades trip.
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