Spider Lily - Pa-Hay-Okee Trail

Fri, 12/14/07

Everglades: Drove over to Biscayne National Park this morning. This park preserves the mangrove shore line from Miami to just north of Key Largo. It also protects several reefs and the uninhabited northern keys. But most of the park is under water. Would be a great place to snorkel. And, they’ll take you out to one of the uninhabited keys and let you camp there. We may do that next year. On the drive over there I saw a HUGE snake. All black and it was coiled up and its flattened head rose up in the center of the coils—like a cobra. Probably my imagination, but they did lose a bunch of cobras in this area during one of the hurricanes. And they’ve been reproducing. We had lunch at the Mutineer Restaurant in Florida City. Back in the Everglades park and we drove over to Pa-Hay-Okee trail and overlook. Another beautiful day—mid 80s again. Sprinkled off and on.