Air Boat through the Everglades

Yesterday Jason and I drove to the 'glades hoping to see some gators. We went for a great boat ride but there wasn't much to see as we barreled down the canal in our louder than life air boat.

We wore earphones to keep out some of the noise. Very thankful for that.

The local driving us around, told us all about "giggin" frogs and catching crabs.

After the boat, we drove around Everglade City to really take it all in. Since we were disappointed about not seeing any gators, they told us about dirt road where you could see some. We drove out but I wasn't feeling hopeful but boy was I surprised. We saw around 20 alligators in under a 1/2 mile stretch of this river. The alligators did not seem scared of us. In fact Jason says that he drove down this road when he came out to interview and the alligators were coming over to them looking for food.

We were really this close to this guy. I didn't even zoom in.

We drove past the smallest Post Office in the United States as well. So cute!

There is so much wildlife here. I love it. We went to a new beach the other day. They had signs posted all around the parking lot to watch for these turtles under your cars before you drove off. We were thinking the signage was a little excessive but then we saw one.

We could have even come home with a new boat. We saw this big beauty as we were driving through town.