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| 3 Crocs basking |
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| Really Big Croc |
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| Dolphin |
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This Croc has no teeth- Rangers named him Gummo
Today we left home early and ventured way into the interior of the Everglades. We chartered a boat and traveled up Buttonwood Canal to Coot Bay further still through a channel in the Mangrove forest to Whitewater Bay. There are literally thousands of miles of mangrove forests. Mostly red mangrove. They are also called the walking mangrove. A branch will overhang the water, maybe 20 feet high, when it will start a shoot growing down. It looks like a leafless branch. Each tree will have hundreds of these shoots. They grow down and down into the water and take purchase onto the river bottom, thus adding support to the branch and allowing the tree to walk across the water. 2 alligators basked in the sun by the shore on our way out. We saw hundreds of birds, from the cattle and white egrets to the red shouldered hawk, anhinga, tricolored ibis, and hundreds of coots. Often the water would shake with jumping mullets. We were returning when two fins appeared, 20 feet off the bow. Bottle nosed dolphins. There were 4 of them and they swam around the boat for a while and darted off in search of lunch. |
The trip was magical, tasting one more flavor of the Everglades.
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