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Everglades National Park - Homestead, Florida
December 5-7, 2008

Anhinga
[Bird with black and white fleathers getting ready to fly from the railing at an Everglades trail.]

Great blue heron
[Great blue heron standing trailside.]

View from the boardwalk of the Anhinga trail
[Alligator swimming in water.]

Looking beside boardwalk supports while on the Anhinga trail.
[Fat alligator sitting right beside boardwalk stilts.]

Pahayokee overlook: This is part of the grassy river that runs through the park. The river is shallow enough vegetation grows which also makes the river very wide (several miles wide).
[There is water all through the tall grass visible from the boardwalk. There are a few trees with no leaves.]

Alligator sunning itself on the Shark Valley trail. (I rode a bike around it far to the left.)
[Alligator who partially crawled on the paved trail.]

Shark Valley trail - alligator near where I parked the bike
[Alligator by the water.]

Shark Valley trail - same alligator when I retrieved the bike
[Alligator with mouth open showing all teeth.]

Shark Valley trail - view from atop the observation tower to which I had biked
[Looking down at the paved trail to the tower and the tree tops near it. The sky is fairly clear and it appears one can see for miles. The land it very flat with mostly dried-brown vegetation.]

Shark Valley trail - blue heron

Boardwalk into the Mahogany Hammock
[Boardwalk over a grassy river to a thickly wooded area.]

Boardwalk through the Mahogany Hammock
[Boardwalk througha thickly wooded area.]

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