We are in our only private park of the trip now. A small park where most of the sites are full time residents and fishing is their goal. Nice folks, but not our preference for camping. We are camping in a trailer park. The marina here at the campground is a wonderful place to watch the sunset and we do that every evening. Chokoloskee Island is 4 miles south of Everglade City and as far south as you can get on the west side of FL. A nice perk here is the option of purchasing WiFi for our stay. We are here to March 5th.
A visitor center for the Everglades Nat’l Park is just up the road in Everglade City and we took a 4 hour ranger led kayak trip to get a taste of the 10,000 Islands area here. There is a 99 mile kayak/canoe trail through here where there are campsites placed a days trip away. What an adventure that would be. But not for us!
A day trip for us was to visit Shark Valley in Big Cypress National Preserve. There is a 15 mile loop trail that cars are not permitted to travel. So we took our bikes and peddled around. What a lovely trip. As you can see we saw lots of alligators! We even saw a nest of babies and other little ones. We took a picnic lunch for the trip. The weather was lovely. On our drive back to cg we took a loop road though Big Cypress, half of it was dirt but a nice ride if you don’t mind dusting your vehicle. We also checked out the dry campground available in the National Park. May try them next year?
Another day trip was to Marco Island. Too built up for us, you can’t see the ocean unless you pay to park and walk the few public access paths to the beach. But, thanks to a tip from my friend Lynn, I was able to do some nice shelling. I found the shell middens and did some good digging to get some nice shells.
This is a male Anhinga. What pretty birds. Along this trail we also saw the Green Heron, Black-capped Night Heron, Wood Stork, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Little Blue Heron, Great Egret, White Ibis, Glossy Ibis and Louisiana Heron. We were also treated with viewing young Anhingas. Such a very nice trip. Anyone who doesn’t want to bike the trail, a tram runs it also.
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