We stopped by 'Robert is Here' market on our way to the Everglades and got some boiled peanuts, which Marisa thought were odd, but were well liked by everyone else in our party along with some milk shakes, fresh fruit and veggies.
We walked the Anhinga Trail when we got into the everglades and saw a huge alligator right away. Albert tried to get Marisa to lay on the ledge next to it, but she wasn't in the mood to get eaten by an alligator so he took a picture of himself next to it instead. We saw a lot of wildlife on the trail; alligators, a wood stork, egrets, herons (little ones, big ones, green ones, blue ones), black headed vultures, a bird banging a fish on a branch. As soon as we got to the Flamingo Marina we had a manatee sighting.
We camped on land a couple nights in between canoeing the mangroves and the gulf. Only had one run in with an Alligator, it was pretty sweet seeing it swim under our canoe. We didn't see a single shark while camping on Shark Bight Chickee, but we did see a bald eagle and on the 9.5 mile paddle back to the marina we saw plenty of crabs, snails and a few fish.
Canoeing was pretty rough for Marisa--she got pretty frustrated with the zig-zagging and over all lack of control a canoe allows the paddlers. But Albert was patient and we made it through four days of paddling a route that would put a drunken sailor to shame and we had fun despite the frustration.
Turns out we couldn't have gone to Bakersfield for this. Florida has plenty to offer and we are only halfway done here. Especially since Florida is warming up like it should and Bakersfield is flooding right now. We hope everyone is safe and keeping dry back home.
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