We paddled in the 10,000 Islands part of the Everglades today. The map with them and an aerial photo from my Audubon field guide. One of the islands. The only reason it has a beach is because the tide is low.
Most of the islands are mangrove islands. John paddling by some of the roots, they cover most of the islands so they are impenetrable. Some have trails or camp spots on them, but most you can't even walk on. John on the trail on Sand Fly Key.
Strangler fig tree, racoon begging for food on Sandfly key, cool vine leaves, gumbo limbo tree trunk and another cool trunk. John on the rest of the trail, pretty heavy vegetation. There would be no way to walk on the island with out the trail they cut and boardwalk they built.
Gumbo Limbo trees. John at our lunch break.
The tide was coming in with lots of current so we turned around and floated back to the take out. Mangrove roots.
Following John on a narrow channel. John with some of the islands in front of him.
White flowers, flying tern, osprey and the osprey nest on the manatee zone sign. Sunset from the bus patio.
I went on a bike ride into town this am to check it out. Downtown Everglades city and when I got back I was way too hot and dove into this great pool.
Our friend Jeff Sambur is visiting us. We took him out paddling around the bay in the mangrove islands. John and Ashley are in the RV next to us. They are from Connecticut and down here for a month. John does some kind of financial thing he can do online.
A church in Everglade City. Jeff took us out to dinner at a local seafood place in town. Sue, John and Jeff.
Sunset from the restaurant over the river. Orange flowers, vulture in the mangroves, a lizard on our patio this am, a pelican in the tree above me paddling, an ibis also above me, oyster catchers eating oysters at low tide and pelicans at the fish cleaning station at the take out.
Quiet evening at home with John and Jeff.
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