Sunday, December 6, 2020

Gator Hunt

We rented kayaks at Loxahatchee Canoeing for a five-mile tour of the northern Everglades. Here's where the trail forks. 

 

Andrew and Andy were first in the water.  Park regulations require that each kayak be flagged.



It took us less than three hours to paddle through the well-marked, circular trail.  Note the reflections of the orange flags on the very still water.


The scenery can get a little repetitive but there's also something hypnotic about paddling through the sawgrass.




Waterlilies are plentiful and pretty.



Cloud cover reduced the heat and made the excursion a lot less sweaty.


I didn't spot an alligator until nearly the end.  It ignored us completely.

A little guy camouflaged itself even better in the murky shallows.

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