Each photo is very likely a link which will take you to a larger version.
Some of my videos are of specific events, but others
show a crowd or a room full of people seemingly at random.
I do this in an attempt to capture the general feel of being there,
not because I'm just a camera-happy idiot. Although I am that, also.
Ashley.
Coopertown Boat Tours, in the Everglades.
The next few photos and videos are of the same.
If you don't like snakes, skip this video.
Turtles!
If you don't like snakes, you'll really want to skip this video.
Mini-turtle!
Our tour guide. He handed out cotton balls to put
in our ears because the boat's engine was so loud.
The Everglades.
The Everglades is not a swamp, it is actually the world's slowest river,
flowing to the sea from Lake Okeechobee about one mile per day.
The beginning of our tour. At the 0:29 mark, you can see an alligator.
It's slightly above and to the right of the center of the image.
It looks like a log and it's heading away from the boat.
I think I'm the only one who saw it. I don't think even our tour guide saw it.
This video and the next two:
You can see why the Everglades is nicknamed the River of Grass.
I thought it was neat how the boats had created these waterways through the grass.
I asked our guide how he didn't get lost, and he said there were familiar landmarks.
It was all grass and trees to me.
Alligators are territorial, so the guides know where they are.
The guides have also named the alligators. This is Scar.
Our tour guide. I don't remember his name.
(Yes, I remember the alligator's name, but not the tour guide's name.)
This little feller's name is Gucci. He's a heart in a handbag.
Hey, these were their words, not mine.
I stopped at a restaurant further up the road, and they had a clown.
So in case you thought this was another photo of natural Everglades wildlife...no.
