The Everglades National Park also know as "Shark Valley" located about 70 miles down US 41 south east of Naples Florida...We went there yesterday, Lucas and I and we took our bikes and rode the 15 miles with friend Ernie Maier...It was fun it took us just over 2 hours to make the circut...Gosh we seen at least 100 aligators I would guess...ranging from 5 to 12 feet long I would guess...some with thier tail lying out on the black top trail and we would ride out bikes past them within a couple feet of them...at first it seemed risky but after a while we got used to it..Literature states that only one person has ever been attacked by a gator and that was when a small boy fell off his bike onto a gator...I think they have too many gator along the trail, I would clean about half of them out of there and into the frying pan if I were manageing the park....but lucky for the Al E. Gators I am not...
Lots of pretty bird life there also it is a camera buffs paradise for sure...When sweet pea arrives here we will do this little ride again...she will like it, I am sure...Ernie Maier said it was the most fun he has had this year here in Paradise...It is a great place to spend a few hours..and across the street from the entrance is a restaurant run by the local Indians in these parts...Real Indians too not the imported variety...the kind that chased Custer you know....Also they have a pretty good looking airboat operation there...I want to try that out soon its 10 bucks per person and I think it is a more authentic everglade swamp than the airboat rides that are closer to Naples...after seeing the territory the Indians take you too I think it is well worth the extra drive a little further down 41....
OK I am getting sleepy and fussy so am signing off....
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