The Panther trail and Alligator alley
Temperature: 28 degrees mainly clear, some cloudy patches.
An alligator spotted enjoying the sun at the side of the road. |
Coopertown
Before we decided to go airboating we were warned that some of the guides show little care in avoiding some of the wildlife and can kill or seriously harm them. Thankfully, this did not occur when we were there and our guide knowledgeable given up to date facts that we had heard before. As for the trip itself it was my first time on an airboat and I found the experience to be quite enjoyable and the surrounding was gorgeous. Unfortunately there was also a small containment on site which had some large Alligators which I and many of the rest of us felt were really underdeveloped (and far too small) and the Alligators themselves seemed lethargic and unhappy
Canoeing
Today was our first chance to have a bit of an early evening but we decided to go out canoeing for our first but not last time! At first we found using the canoe to be a bit tricky but after a while we began to get the hand of it and really enjoyed ourselves. We saw lots pelicans roosting in the mangroves and getting some of the early morning sun. We also saw some large floating propagules of mangroves but many of these were dead or had been eaten by a hungry pelican! We got an incredible surprise when we were putting our canoe when we saw some bottlenose dolphins (Tursiop) inquisitively swam past us!
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