The boat I was on is on the far right, I forget the name. It had two motors and two massive props. Unfortunately the captain neve got it going very fast. We never went faster than 25-30 MPH, I'm sure it can do much better than that, but I guess when you have a boat full of tourists you have to scale it back a bit.
The ride was pretty interesting we saw about a half dozen alligators, some turtles and a few birds. The captian also talked a lot about how the eco-system in the everglades works, and hwo humans affect it. The craziest part for me is that they estimate there are over 100,000 Burmese Pythons in the everglades, and in the next 10 years they expect the numbers to reach over 500,000. This is all just from people having them as pets and then releasing them into the wild, eventually they find each other and breed.
The first gator we saw, he was about 10 feet long.
They feed them dog biscuits, so they get pretty close to the boat.
Right here I could have reached out and touched this guy. A little part of me really wanted to. I'm pretty sure on dry land I could take a gator, but in the water, he may just get the best of me, so I kept my hands to myself.
A bit smaller guy, this one, I could take for sure, but we didn't get close enough for me to try.
A buzzard. Gross. The second creepiest of all birds.
We saw some turtles as well, but my pictures didn't turn out very good.
Once we got back to land they have some exhibits of some animals, so I wandered around that for a bit and snapped some photos.
Some Burmese Pythons, just for Jonas.
A big ass turtle, I don't have much patience for reading signs, so I can't really tell you what most of this stuff actually is.
Some medium ass turtles.
This guy was about 12 feet long, I think he'd give me a run for my money, even on land.
An American Crocodile. They're not native to the part where I was, but further south, near Miami they have them in the wild.
A panther, I thought they were all black, I guess not? There are still some Panthers in the wild down here, but they think there are only about 100 or so, so seeing them in the wild is almost unheard of.
All in all it was pretty cool, my only real big disappointment was that they advertised you could hold an alligator, when I got to that area, the gator was about 18" long, and they had the mouth taped shut. If there's no possibility I'm getting bitten, I don't want anything to do with it.
2 comments:
my heart literally stopped beating for about 2.5 seconds. effing snakes. I am shaking right now, hate.
Whats funny to me...besides the fact that jonas is a sissy...is that you were 2 feet away from gators and you were probably still more scared of the bird.
Ha ha.
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