Day on the trail

This was on the floor

Monday we went into a small town called Everglades City.  We had to get gas.  It was $3.38 a gal.  We should have filled up before we came down here.  We had a nice lunch at a local restaurant.  Here are some of the local sights.  It was a slow day.  Hardly anyone was on the streets.

Than the next day we went out to the back country with the Ranger.  We had a really nice day, the weather was beautiful.  The trails started out covered in gravel but some places were a little rough.  Ed says it looks like Elkhart's street.

  We went off the trail several times this is one place we went and found a fire pit.  Hunters come back here and spend the night.

We didn't see much wild life except for a couple of deer.  Ed says it was because the Ranger is so noisy.  We came across this and Ed said it looks like an alien pod.

We were out for about 4 1/2 hours.  Several times we left the path and went down side trails.  It looked like places swamp buggies had been.  It was so muddy and the ruts were so deep that usually it looked like we were going to get stuck so we would turn around and go back to the regular trail.  We saw one of the swamp buggies in the parking lot.  Ed said " Get me one of those".  I said " No".  But we were able to get his picture in it.

doesn't he look happy

Here is a sign you don't see very often.  We haven't seen any panthers but I guess they do get hit by cars.  The park rangers says there are about 125 of them in the preserve.  About 20 of them get hit during the year.

We were also told that sometimes the alligators come across the road and get hit.  The park ranger said  you would think people could see that some thing was in the road.  It is not as if they run out in front of you.

Happy Trails.   Lyn and Ed