Everglades National Park: A nice sunny morning after a rather cool evening last night. Late morning we headed out with our bikes. There’s an old farm road, forest road, or whatever, at the end of our loop. Took that old road which dead ended at the road that goes to the Daniel Beard Research Center and the old missile base if you go one way, and if you go the other way you end up at the Anhinga trail. We went to the right and biked past the Daniel Beard Research Center and then the road takes a sharp left and dead-ends at the old Nike missile base. Rode all the way out there and then started back. Coming back was better once we made the turn in the road because the wind was at our backs. Stopped at a little pond by the side of this road and saw a couple of gators. On the other side of the road was a family of immature white ibis. This is a great place to ride since the road is much better than the main road through the park and there’s hardly any traffic. Along this road there was also a trench dug into the limestone way back when. I guess for drainage? It’s since overgrown or filled in. Gives you a good look at the limestone in here. Under all the saw grass is this limestone—and in most places water. And in some places the softer stuff gets worn away and you’re left with these jagged holes—several feet deep in some places. That’s what makes it so treacherous walking around in the saw grass. After our bike ride we relaxed the rest of the day. Steaks and cauliflower for dinner. A couple two sites up from us who are from Illinois joined us for a fire in the evening.
These trenches were dug into the limestone way back when--probably for drainage
Old farm or forest road
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