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Homeschool Week of Prayer
Month: February 2013
Big Cypress National Preserve
Not far from Everglades National Park is the Big Cypress National Preserve. We took a nice walk there and spotted a Limpkin at the end of the walk. At this park, we didn’t see tons of wildlife, we just enjoyed family time. That’s important too!
The whole gang.
View from the end of the boardwalk.
Animals in Everglades National Park
Of course, birds are our favorite to see in new places, but we saw some very interesting animals too. Reptiles definitely ruled the day. We saw very few mammals. I’m not sure if we saw any mammals while we were in the Everglades National Park. We couldn’t even think of any squirrels that we saw there. Oh, I remember now, we saw some dolphins. We weren’t able to identify which kind though.
Here are a few pictures we caught. (Captions: Top-American Alligator; Middle-Congregation of Alligator Hatchlings; Bottom-American Crocodile)
Here is our list from Everglades of non-bird animals that we saw (both reptiles and mammals.)
American Alligator (and a congregation of hatchlings)
American Crocodile
Florida soft-shell turtle (in pond)
Common Snapping Turtle
Unidentified Sea Turtle
Unidentified Dolphin