On my last morning in Key West I woke up with terrible headache and hangover. We had to change our plans a little bit and hit the road only about noon. That way we arrived to Everglades late afternoon. Just perfect moment to catch some late rays of sun and take few nice pictures of animals there. Nothing to write about, better see some pictures....
Next morning we got back to
Anhinga trail in Everglades very early in the morning to catch some sunrise rays, but it was cloudy again. Weather changed after two hours, but animals just finished their morning activity by then.
So we managed to take some last pictures and decided to head to Sanibel and Captiva islands. I knew the last place from my previous trip in 2007. They've very nice vacation resorts there, but you can also spot a lot of different animals like dolphins, raccoons, herons, young women, flamingos, etc. There's some kind of trail -
Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge. We visited it, but had not much luck. Birds were far away from us or we just had too short lenses. Eventually we've reached the very end of Captiva island - the parking at the beach and decided to go see some sunset pics on the beach. It turned out to be perfect decsision. First we've noticed blue heron on the beach - unusual view. Later it became clear why it is there and even very close to the people. One guy had fishing rod and was trying to catch some fish in the sea. Heron was waiting for them, because the guy was doing it for him! Yes, he was feeding the bird! Besides it was sunset - perfect light for taking pictures. I managed to fill my 16GB card in almost an hour and hopefully have some good pictures among them. After all judge them yourself and leave me a comment please...
After the sunset we decided to find some place to sleep. But still on Sanibel we came across the restaurant called
Hungry Heron - the name reminded me the one from the beach and decided to stop by here for a small dinner. Actually it turned out to be not so small and I managed to eat only a half of it... With full belly we left Sanibel island and headed back to Miami. Finally we found a small camping at the 41th state and stopped there for a night. We had no tent, but fortunately got minivan instead of midsize requested in
Alamo and due to this had some space to sleep. We spent the night on the hard floor of the van in the middle of wetlands. Very memorable night for only 22 USD...
Next morning we got back to Anhinga trail in Everglades very early in the morning to catch some sunrise rays, but it was cloudy again. Weather changed after two hours, but animals just finished their morning activity by then.
So we managed to take some last pictures and decided to head to Sanibel and Captiva islands. I knew the last place from my previous trip in 2007. They've very nice vacation resorts there, but you can also spot a lot of different animals like dolphins, raccoons, herons, young women, flamingos, etc. There's some kind of trail - Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge. We visited it, but had not much luck. Birds were far away from us or we just had too short lenses. Eventually we've reached the very end of Captiva island - the parking at the beach and decided to go see some sunset pics on the beach. It turned out to be perfect decsision. First we've noticed blue heron on the beach - unusual view. Later it became clear why it is there and even very close to the people. One guy had fishing rod and was trying to catch some fish in the sea. Heron was waiting for them, because the guy was doing it for him! Yes, he was feeding the bird! Besides it was sunset - perfect light for taking pictures. I managed to fill my 16GB card in almost an hour and hopefully have some good pictures among them. After all judge them yourself and leave me a comment please...
After the sunset we decided to find some place to sleep. But still on Sanibel we came across the restaurant called Hungry Heron - the name reminded me the one from the beach and decided to stop by here for a small dinner. Actually it turned out to be not so small and I managed to eat only a half of it... With full belly we left Sanibel island and headed back to Miami. Finally we found a small camping at the 41th state and stopped there for a night. We had no tent, but fortunately got minivan instead of midsize requested in Alamo and due to this had some space to sleep. We spent the night on the hard floor of the van in the middle of wetlands. Very memorable night for only 22 USD...
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