Florida has something for everyone; the very wealthy and the not so, the young and the young at heart, those who relish the hub-hub of the city lights and those who at home in the solitude of wide-open country.
I fit into the latter category and was right at home on the edges of the Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Park. We spent a month in our camper, calling the Big Cypress RV Resort (on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation) home. From this relaxed atmosphere I was able to walk along miles of canals and witness majestic sunsets and sunrises on an almost daily basis. The waters of the canal would change color as the sun rose high into a cloudless sky and the red shouldered hawks, beautiful white egrets, and stark black turkey buzzards would vie for attention right along with lounging alligators and sunning turtles.
As we left to head back north after our month on the reservation, we only briefly flirted with nature’s coast (the northern west coast of the peninsula) and the birdlife on and along the Chassahowitzka River but we like to flirt with nature and will likely have to try it again.
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009409-6235 Backlit Cabbage Palm $14.95 -
009409-7440 Big Cypress Preserve $14.95 -
009409-7453 Blue-eyed Grass Blossom $14.95 -
009309-5812 A Moth Perched on Pickerelweed $14.95
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009309-6243 Great Egret in Big Cypress Preserve $14.95 -
009309-2867 Sunset on Big Cypress Reservation $14.95 -
009309-7788 Blue Canal on the Big Cypress Reservation $14.95 -
009309-5985 Moon Morning Glory $14.95
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0009-6852 Seminole Reservation Sunrise $14.95
