Everglades NP - flamingo

Everglades National Park protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River. Everglades is the third-largest national park in the contiguous United States after Death Valley and Yellowstone. The national park has three sections flamingo, which is the farthest southern tip overlooking the Florida Bay shark Valley, which is to the north and Everglades city which is to the west.

We headed over to the flamingo area, which was the furthest southern point of the park. At the visitor center, we saw a statue of a panther, which is much bigger than I thought it would be. we also saw a skeleton for a python. Boy, those things are big. Fortunately, we did not see any of them in our travels, but we were all on the lookout for them.

We came at the perfect time of year. It’s not hot and the mosquito meter is set to low. As soon as it warms up that mosquito meter is pegged at high mosquito levels. I’m glad we avoided that.

The pictures that you see that are large bodies of water is actually the Florida Bay. The ocean, hooray! I miss the ocean. We went on a few short hikes while we were down here and it seems that every tree has an air plant in it. Pretty neat to see. We ended the day spotting a crocodile out in the water. We’re all certain that it is a crocodile based on the teeth and the way the head is shaped. The Everglades is the only place where both alligators and crocodiles coexist in the United States.Read more