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Anhinga Trail, Everglades National Park – Homestead, Florida
As I prepped for our trip to the Everglades and reviewed hiking opportunities, the Anhinga Trail was mentioned again and again. Like many of the trails in the Everglades it is largely a boardwalk trail through a wetland, and is the most visited trail in the park. The Anhinga Trail is located in the Royal…
Back Country Boat Tour, Everglades National Park – Homestead, Florida
On the morning of our first full day in the Everglades we had a reservation for a park sponsored Backcountry Boat Tour. We had decided that to truly understand the ecology of the Everglades, where both salt and fresh water cover much of the surface, we were going to have to get out on the…
Everglades National Park – Homestead, Florida
I had last been in the Everglades 50 years ago. My recall was largely limited to a ranger led “swamp tromp” that I took with a collection of non-familial adults when I was a teen, and I was eager to return with a more nuanced eye to its ecology. We were looking for an escape…