Flight and the Everglades

Ready for security	Waiting for the flight	Checking in	Waiting for the bus	View from my hotel room
Bus driver Ivan who's also an artist	In the Everglades	George	We filled three airboats	Boat number two
A blue heron	Path through the "river of grass"	First stop	First alligator	Our guide took pictures, too.
Our three boat drivers/Everglades guides	Johnny Tigertail	Boat driver turned animal handler	Alligators and turtles	Watching the show
Something's funny	Softshell turtle	Ancestral island	Johnny and one of his friends	Another friend
Roof and rafters of a tiki hut	Old sewing machines	Not as old as I thought	Turkey vulture	Alaskan totem
Close-up of the engine	Ready for the return trip	Back to civilization	Ft. Lauderdale airport	Boarding the ship
View from our balcony	View of the harbor	Another view of the harbor	IMG_0148.JPG	IMG_0148sm.jpg
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IMG_0159sm.jpg	IMG_0162sm.jpg	Sunset at sea	Full moon on a very black night.