Everglades National Park: A beautiful, sunny morning. Just hung out all morning enjoying the gentle swaying of the beautiful pines in the balmy 83 degree breezes. We saw a beautiful, graceful bird flying overhead with a long, deeply-notched tail. Turns out it was a swallow-tailed kite. A member of the hawk family. It’s getting cloudier and cloudier. After lunch we decided to bike to the Anhinga trail. Biking on the road from the campground was okay, but when we got on the main road in the park—which is a two-lane road with no shoulder and a speed limit of 55—I was not comfortable. So we turned around and headed back. Biked a little of the pinelands trail, which is an old forest road—basically two ruts on limestone bedrock—which meandered through the saw grass prairie. I was worried about seeing one of those damned pythons which are all over the area. So far we’ve never seen one though—or any snake for that matter. Biked back and drove over to the Anhinga trail and walked it for a while. Unbelievably, as we were leaving we ran into Karen and Jim, a couple from North Carolina who were wintering at Lazy Lakes this year also. They left the day after we did. Small world! In the parking lot at Anhinga there was a dead black vulture hanging upside down from a post. Apparently the vultures have been eating the rubber trim off the cars in the parking lot. And hanging a dead vulture apparently scared them off because there were none in the parking lot. Drove into Homestead and picked up some produce and bought some D batteries. Had dinner at Mutineers—we both had steak and shrimp. I ended up sharing my steak with a little stray cat. He stuck up his nose at the shrimp, but devoured the steak. The waitress told us there are 30 stray cats on the property and they feed them all. Back home. Mike made a fire and we sat around drinking Baileys and gazing at the stars. 83 today!
Anhinga--picture by Mike
Me, Karen and Jim--picture by Mike
Baby gators--picture by Mike
Mama gator--picture by Mike
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