We took friends from up north on a drive through Florida’s 500 mile wide shallow, slow-moving river called the Everglades. There are narrow clearings along our favorite 25 mile dirt road where we can see a little further into the cypress forest and find beautiful birds who are looking for some lunch, and other creatures who are drawn to the sun to warm themselves. Today was an alligator day.
I thought these juveniles would like to play until one of them hissed at me. I listened and showed respect.
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How dare those juveniles hiss at you. Delinquents! LOL
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And they won! 🙂
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That first photo is beautiful and as mysterious as the Everglades. Its such a beautiful area. I live so close, I hate I don’t get down there more often.
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Thank you so much. I, too, thought the photo captured the mystery of the Everglades and appreciate having someone who knows the area confirm it. I find that it is very difficult to photograph this aspect of it but I really like this one. I appreciate your photo, Ana.
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I agree it is difficult, I have very few decent photos of the everglades. If we can keep two cars running for any length of time maybe I’ll get to visit this year. 🙂
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Wow! Great shot. They are cute but don’t know I would have been brave enough to get that close. We saw a 14 foot gator at Corkscrew Swamp last week but he was too far away to get anything more than a mediocre shot. Wanted to drive through Everglades Nat’l Park but it didn’t happen this trip. We’re back in the frozen north now.
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I’m sorry you had to go to the cold, Anne. But there can be another trip – when you do let me know and I’ll tell you where this drive is. I didn’t get all that close because I used a telephoto lens (230 mm) although my husband would argue about my definition of closeness. I have more of the big daddies to come. 🙂
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Thank you! I will definitely do that. We’ve been going to the area for years and may spend more time there in the future.
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We love it here as a retirement place. It doesn’t frost here in the winter. 😀 Continual green and flowers and lots of blue sky. For a northerner we don’t feel we can get much closer to paradise than that.
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How can such scary animals look so darn CUTE??
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I had to work hard to not reach out and touch them. 🙂
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Yikes!!
But those little ones are really kinda cute. 🙂
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What cute little babies! Their heads look too big for their bodies. 🙂
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I think big heads is what makes babies look so cute. 🙂 When adults have big heads, they become obnoxious. 😀
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😆 So true, Pat.
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A bit scary.
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Especially the big ones. 🙂
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I´m impressed that you dared to take photos of them. I wouldn´t go near them I think. 🙂
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Great pic of the lil gators Pat! I got my first gator the other day. So exciting.
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The first time we did this drive we only saw one, this time there were dozens – most big so we didn’t get close. 🙂
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