Today we left the Miami area and drove through the Everglades and Big Cypress Park. Unfortunately we didn’t take a boat tour or even a muck-about tour (wading through the swamp), but we did see alligators and lots of wonderful birds.
At the first visitor centre, we walked along a boardwalk and admired the alligators below. They hunt at nights, so in the day, all they want to do is stay warm and digest their food.
I bought Morgane a little book on alligators and she read it all by herself. We learned that crocodiles live all around the world, but alligators are only in the southeastern states and in China. They are cold-blooded and mothers can have 40 babies at a time.
The road runs beside a sort of canal and I spotted a lot of alligators in it. Free-range alligators, I call them. You can buy alligator jerky to eat, but none of us would have eaten any.
Now we are on the western coast of Florida in Port Charlotte. We are exhausted and will go to bed early. It’s already much colder than it was in Miami and the Everglades