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Landscapes
of Everglades National Park
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As an outdoor person National Parks are always in my
bucket list while travelling. And so are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Everglades
National Park goes to both of the categories - like 13 other National Parks in
US - so I couldn’t visit Florida without going there! This time our visit was
only short stop of few hours and we saw only a small part of this National Park.
Maybe I will be back someday to explore more.
Everglades is called as a river of grass flowing imperceptibly from the hinterland into the sea.
It looks more like a huge swamp, but technically it’s a river flowing at the
slow rate. As Everglades is huge wetland area, it’s not actual hiking paradise,
but there are some short and easy hiking trails available. Many people visiting
the park choose to go boating or canoeing instead. Popular tourist activity is
to go airboat rides and looking for alligators, but most of these tours are not
actually located even within National Park limits as it’s prohibited in most of
the area. As this unique ecological system has already been partly destroyed,
for me the decision was clear – I wanted to disturb wilderness as little as
possible so I said no for airboats and we decided to do something else in
National Park area instead.
So we headed to northern part of the National Park, to Shark Valley area. There is possibility to rent the bikes and cycle
the 15 mile trail built in the area, but there are also 2 hour tours lead by rangers available.
To get more information about the park and its wildlife, we decided to do small
walk by ourselves and then join to tour. That was definitely good decision. We immediately
realized that rangers who are observing wildlife on daily basis were able to
see much more than you would notice. So you will be seeing more birds and alligators
this way and somebody will be also naming you them.
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View from
Shark Valley observation tower in Everglades National Park
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Tri-color
Heron in Shark Valley of Everglades National Park
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Everglades National Park is bird watching paradise
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