Blogs from Everglades National Park, Florida, United States, North America - page 2

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Another excellent nights sleep, another early start. Breakfast in the Neighbourhood cafe, delicious bowl of oatmeal and Alex excelled himself with a toasted bagel with peanut butter, jelly and cream cheese followed by a large helping of french toast with maple syrup! An exciting day ahead of us, cameras at the ready, we headed into the Everglades to take an airboat tour into the swamps to see the wildlife. Captain Andy took us aboard a small 6 seater airboat along with a nice family from New Jersey, within seconds of departing the dock, 4 pelicans had hitched a ride and sat inches from me and the young New Jersey lad with the slightly amusing name of Griffin...seriously! Next animal up was a friendly racoon who came right up to the boat on a tree branch, very ... read more

Everglades 26.-27.12.2012 We spent two superb days exploring the Everglades national park area. Our hostel, Everglades International Hostel, provides free breakfast in form of ingredients to make your own pancakes on an outdoors stove, so that's how we started our mornings: Leo making the best pancakes of the hostel (a comment he received from a co-resident, and I cannot disagree either ;-). On day one we drove our car to Shark Valley visitor center planning to rent bikes to take the 24 kilometer bike ride around the wetlands. We arrived at the entrance to find out that firstly, the parking lot was full, and second, there was a waiting list to rent bikes. Neither issue proved too serious, though, we managed to park the car a bit outside of the park, and landed bikes after some ... read more

"I loved when we saw the spoonbills. They were awesome. The smores where amazing. I went with my friend Luna. We played on an ipad. It was very nice. I hold an alligator but I dropped it. And I held a snake. It was very very nice. We went on a airboat. It was sooo cool. It was noisy. We slept in tents. And my brother came with us."- Sofia ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ After living in Miami for over 6 years and never going to the everglades, daddy thought now was the time. So with my brother, Vitor, and good friend Luna and her crazy dad Sean, we went to camp for a night. Less than an hour away, we first stopped at Rober Is Here to have awesome milkshakes as we checked out the animals at the ... read more

With the bed of my truck packed Matt and I were off to pick up Rana, Jackie, and Krista on our way to Everglades City. By the time we had everyone’s stuff in the back of my truck it was so full I wasn’t sure how we would keep things from blowing out as we drove down interstate 75. It was an easy drive that only required one gas stop and a dinner break. While having dinner an Applebee’s one member of our group (to remain anonymous) commandeered additional silverware that was forgotten to be packed and added it to her purse while the waitress wasn’t looking. For a moment I was afraid that she was actually going to add all of our place settings to her oversized bag but just a few forks, spoons, and ... read more