By Rachel - 3/8/07

We left Miami and headed for Naples. On the way, we stopped at the Everglades National Park. We went on a tour. On our tour, we saw a lot of birds. This is just my opinion, but I don’t really enjoy just looking at birds. I have to see “action” animals. If you know me, you probably guessed that! There were probably 200 birds. But I probably saw 50 alligabors including babies, males, females. Babies are probably six inches long. You would probably guess that the Everglades are very tropical. Well…you guessed wrong! The Everglades are dry-looking and sort of swampish at some times. Whenw e got to the half-way point of our tram tour, there was an observation deck which used to be an oil rig. Then on our way back, we saw most of the alligators. Our tour guide’s name was Bob. Just so you know, we didn’t walk around much when we went on the tram ride. We did get off the tram one time for the guide to talk to us, and then when we went to the observation tower. There are alligators all around you.

When we got back, we got Jr. Ranger booklets to work on. Then we went to the gift shop and turned in our Jr. Ranger booketls. Then we went to the campground in Naples. Mom did our laundry and we got to go swimming. The weather was very nice today. Overall it was a pretty good day today.