Our trip to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida!

This is Evan at the beach with us!

     We just came back from Fort Lauderdale, Florida and we had a lot of fun doing a bunch of free things that were amazing.

   The first morning we were there we dropped my dad off at the university and went to Hollywood Beach. The jellyfish were everywhere and everybody except Mom and Evan were stung. The beach was amazing, the water was very clear, and it was so windy!

This is one of the many trails we went on in Everglades National Park!

            One day we went to Everglades National Park. There we saw two big alligators, alligator gar, and anhingas. The first alligator we saw we thought at first was a tire because its tail was slightly curled and was on the trail. When we got up there, we realized it was a giant alligator and we ran past it up the trail. 

Air plants!

Us at the beach it was so windy!

               The next day we went to a birding trail that was really close to the beach and as we were going to the parking lot an iguana about three feet long ran across the road and into the woods. As soon as we go onto one of their trails, we started seeing these small crabs and they were everywhere. Next, we got to a gazebo over a brackish lake and when I looked into the water I saw a yellow and black puffer fish in the lake then we noticed alligator gar. When we went onto the second trail, we saw ibis trying to eat crabs and we heard a popping sound and later we were told that they were snapping shrimp and they were trying to defend themselves from the ibis. Overall the trip was amazing and I hope we can go back soon !

This is the alligator we thought was a tire!

We saw the Goodyear blimp leaving the beach from the interstate!

The super long 15 mile trail in the Everglades- but we only went about 5 miles there and back!

I found a wild coconut on our way out of the state park !

Ian found this scary hornet's nest and my mom almost ran into it!

This is a splash pad that was at the beach.

This is the iguana that ran across the road !

   

We saw someone almost fall in the water to take a picture up close of this turtle

Cool lizard we found and caught!

This is a mangrove tree crab!

This is an anhinga!

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