Showing Denae the Florida wildlife

There is a park about 10 miles west of our condo, which is where the city ends and the everglades start, we wanted to take Denae out to to show here some alligators. We had been there last year and we saw about 5 of them in 10 minutes so we assumed it would be easy to find a few. We got out there and walked around for an hour and could find none. It was overcast and windy, about 75 outside and I concluded the alligators must like the sunshine since they are reptiles, and are in hiding waiting for the sun so I just started taking pictures of some of the other wildlife.

Native bird (I think)

Native butterfly

Native boat

another native butterfly

Parrots on a fence

parrots on the ground

The edge of the everglades

After spending most of the afternoon walking around we decided to head to the beach. As we were driving back to civilization there is a canal along side the road. I decided to pull over and check the canal and lo and behold...a gator!

Native alligator

He is awake

about 6 feet

Denae loves animals

After a few pictures we went down to the beach. Not a lot of people down there late in the afternoon, but there were a bunch of surfers.

Not a busy beach

except for these guys

Girls on the beach

boulders on the beach

So it was off to lighthouse park. It was getting close to sundown and the fishing boats were coming in.

here comes the boats

We ran across the street to the Pompano fishing fleet docks and watched the guys unload the fish.

Fresh fish anyone?

Probably going to be a McDonald's fish fillet

Until nex time....hasta lavista (Spanish for later)