Since we live in and have toured Florida a lot, you would think that we would have visited here before.
Nope, this is our 335th National Park visit.
Monument Lake in Big Cypress.
A beautiful campground.
Monument Lake campground in Big Cypress.
We are camped just 20 ft. from where Judy is standing.
Big Cypress Visitor Center.
We were looking for real panthers, but no luck.
There were places for them to cross the road.
A Miccosukee Indian business was as close as
we came to seeing a panther.
Each male panther needs 200 square miles of territory.
Females require 75.
Official US Post Office of Ochopee--the country's smallest.
This building was an irrigation pipe shed when the original P.O. burnt in 1953.
Bromeliad
White ibis in a bromeliad-laden cypress tree.
American alligator. We saw PLENTY of these creatures, up close and personal.
This water moccasin is very shy, but is standing his ground.
On our short hike through a cypress strand swamp.
We did not find a ghost orchid, but this grass flower looks
a little like the pictures seen in the Visitor's Center.
In the Everglades National Park.
On the walkway.
This is a beautiful specimen.
Male anhinga.
Mom and babies.
At the observation tower.
This structure was an oil drilling platform in the 1940s.
The oil was full of impurties and deemed too costly to refine.
Purple gallinule.
Endangered wood stork.
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