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On The Road – frosty – Everglades National Park, Part Two

by WaterGirl|  September 27, 20215:00 am| 10 Comments

This post is in: Everglades, On The Road, Photo Blogging

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Everglades: as far south in Florida as you can get without being in the Keys.

I had a hard time reducing three days in the Everglades to one post, so I was glad to see the comments that asked for a few more pictures. Here’s some of the ones that didn’t make the cut for the first post.

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Everglades National ParkFebruary 8, 2021

Taylor Slough, from the Anhinga Trail boardwalk

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On The Road – frosty – Everglades Birds

by WaterGirl|  May 20, 20215:00 am| 20 Comments

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I’ve been taking pictures of birds as we go, mostly so I have something to use while I page through Peterson’s and check on the Cornell site Merlin to try to identify them. These are some that came out good enough to be worth posting.

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Anhinga TrailFebruary 8, 2021

Anhinga. Well, of course there should be at least one of these on this trail!

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On The Road – frosty – Everglades National Park

by WaterGirl|  May 18, 20215:00 am| 16 Comments

This post is in: Everglades, On The Road, Photo Blogging

?  frosty has submitted several posts from his road trip this spring, and I had been saving them for a week or two of On the Road After Dark.  But submissions to On the Road have slowed considerably, so we will have three of frosty’s trips this week.

For several months we had so many submissions that there were enough for morning OTR and After Dark, and people still had to wait 3 or 4 weeks before their photo sets could go up!

Are we running out of photos because travel has been almost nonexistent because of Covid? Or maybe lack of interest?   Or is this just a lull in the conversation because we couldn’t go anywhere?  Let us know what you think in the comments.

frosty

I’ve mentioned in a few comments that we’re on the road again. This is our 7th Annual Snowbird Road Trip / 2nd Annual COVID/National Park Challenge. We’re going to try to see the parks we missed last year … and looking at the map I’ve added a few more. The itinerary will get us to at least 13 National Parks and 3 National Monuments, along with state parks in Florida, Mississipi, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and points east as yet undefined. We already hit the big parks years ago, and we’re working on what I’d call the second tier: less popular but still great. I’ll post more parks to OTR as we go.

When we made our plans last year we thought the pandemic would be less of an issue. Hah! Cases now are higher than when we bailed last year in April. Nevertheless, we’ve got a routine we think will keep us safe. As one commenter earlier said, paraphrasing George Carlin: “Anyone who takes more precautions than you is an idiot, anyone who takes less is a maniac.”

That being said, here are some pictures from our first park this year: Everglades. There are nine different ecosystems in the park, we took two days and saw seven of them. The two we missed were Coastal Marsh, which in inaccessible by land, and Coastal Prairie, which took a longer hike than we were prepared for.

A few inches of elevation here is all it takes to make the land just a little drier to change the whole ecosystem.

Our first day was a drive along the park road, stopping at trails and overlooks. For the second day, we drove to the Flamingo Visitor Center and took a boat tour into the park a few miles up the Wilderness Waterway to Whitewater Bay. Besides birds, we saw a manatee (notoriously difficult for me to photograph) and both a gator and an American Crocodile, which is unusual, because gators live in freshwater and crocs in saltwater.

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Anhinga TrailFebruary 8, 2021

Freshwater Slough. Our first stop was at Royal Palm, where we walked along the (boardwalk) Anhinga Trail over the Taylor Slough.

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