69-year old Presidents who give two-and-a-half hour inaugural speeches don’t represent all the National Parks that can be sick. Not at all. Some Parks are sick themselves and need help. Case in point: the Everglades.
South Florida is a very young land mass, appearing anywhere from 6,000 to 8,000 years ago, a veritable newborn. Native Americans [...]
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Sickness Week: Everglades National Park
Posted in National Parks, tagged Endangered, Everglades, Florida on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Birdwatching Week: Everglades National Park
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Birdwatching, Everglades, Florida on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Everglades National Park was the first place where we felt like honest-to-goodness birders. We walked around book in hand, binoculars on point, ears wide open. Our heightened senses weren’t necessary; birds are everywhere! The Park’s famed Anhinga Trail follows a boardwalk through a densely inhabited landscape. The birds (and the alligators) seem too content [...]
Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve
Posted in National Preserves, tagged African American History, Florida, House Tour, Jacksonville, Mansion, Native American History on February 2, 2005 | 1 Comment »
near Jacksonville, Fla.
Visited: February 2, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 140 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
46,000 acres existing mostly of salt marshes that border the slow urban sprawl of greater Jacksonville. The historical part of the preserve consists of a Sea Island cotton plantation and scattered Timucuan Indian ruins.
BEAUTY (3/10)
The Preserve is that garbled part [...]
Fort Caroline National Memorial
Posted in National Memorial, tagged Colonization, Florida, Fort, France, Huguenots, Jacksonville, New World, Spain on February 2, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Part of Timucuan Ecological and Historical PreserveJacksonville, Fla.
Visited: February 2, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 139 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Reconstructed 16th-century fort that marks the brief Protestant French (Huguenot) presence along the southern Atlantic coast.
BEAUTY (2/10)
We asked the Ranger at Castillo de San Marcos NM why did the French sail to St. Augustine instead [...]
Fort Matanzas National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged Catholic, Colonial Hist, Colonization, Florida, Fort, France, Protestant, Spain, St. Augustine on February 1, 2005 | 2 Comments »
south of St. Augustine, Fla.
Visited: February 1, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 137 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
A Spanish stone masonry fortification finished in 1742 whose purpose was to guard the mouth of the Matanzas River, a back door channel into the important colonial city, Saint Augustine.
BEAUTY (6/10)
Fort Matanzas stands on Rattlesnake Island, a small [...]
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
Posted in National Monument, tagged Cannons, Colonial History, Colonization, Florida, Fort, New World, Spain, St. Augustine on February 1, 2005 | 3 Comments »
St. Augustine, Fla.
Visited: February 1, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 138 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
A massive stone masonry 17th-century Spanish fort built to protect the city of St. Augustine from British colonial invasion. The Castillo de San Marcos (St. Mark’s Castle) marked the northern-most settlement in Spain’s vast New World Empire.
BEAUTY (7/10)
We were immediately [...]
Everglades National Park – Shark Valley
Posted in National Parks, tagged Alligators, Birdwatching, Boardwalk, Endangered, Everglades, Florida, Kid Friendly, National Park, Zoo on January 21, 2005 | 2 Comments »
south Florida
Visited: January 21, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 133 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
At 1.5 million acres, Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. This review covers the Shark Valley area, which consists of a loop road leading to an observation tower through a freshwater slough ecosystem.
BEAUTY (8/10)
A freshwater [...]
Everglades National Park – Main Entrance
Posted in National Parks, tagged Alligators, Beach, Birdwatching, Canoeing, Crocodiles, Endanged Park, endangered species, Everglades, Florida, Kayaking, Manatee, National Park, Osprey on January 21, 2005 | 2 Comments »
near Florida City, Fla.
Visited: January 21, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 133 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
At 1.5 million acres, Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. This review covers the areas of the park accessible through its main entrance located just outside Florida City, Fla. This stretch of road [...]
Everglades National Park – Gulf Coast
Posted in National Parks, tagged Alligator, Backcountry, Bald Eagle, Boating, Camping, Canoeing, Endangered, Everglades, Florida, great campsites, Kayaking, Mangroves, Porpoises, Water-Based Park, Wildnerness on January 4, 2005 | 2 Comments »
near Everglades City, Fla.
Visited: January 4, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 133 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
At 1.5 million acres, Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. This review covers the northwestern portion of the Park; the area serviced by the Gulf Coast Visitor Center.
BEAUTY (8/10)
There are two routes through [...]
