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bookrat · 2 years ago

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Went on a camping trip down to south Florida, starting in the everglades

We were looking for snakes and American crocodiles, but we did find this day moth and tree snail

Plus a couple nocturnal critters settling down for a nice days sleep

Lots of high quality birds in the swamp

Saw frigate birds in the Dry Tortugas, but they mostly hung motionless and effortlessly high in the air like low poly videogame background birds

Had to flee back north early ahead of Nikole. Managed to catch a glimpse of this bark anole when we stopped for breakfast, but all the iguanas were hiding.

Tons of introduced rock agamas calling this gas station home, and a nearby rooster hung out with a flock of grackles. Was hoping to see more exotic reptiles around Miami, but perhaps another time.

#long post #travel log #now I'm sick #gonna be so mad if I dodged Covid for 2 years and finally lost because of a trip centered around outdoor activities #The Dry Tortugas was great but not really full of photography opportunities unless you like ruins #Previous hurricane destroyed a lot of plants so he was just like #pls don't step on any of my plants I don't have many left #There was a full moon so we couldn't see the stars except surprise there was a lunar eclipse actually #no light pollution so we saw the milky way and a shooting star that shattered into fragments as it burned up on entry #also #apparently a lot of Cuban refugees land there so the head ranger guy didn't know much about the wildlife so one got the impression #that tourists were an unfortunate inconvenience for him personally when he had a lot of other stuff more important to be worrying about #I don't think many would want to come here if America lifted the embargo strangling their country #so we just invent a crisis for another independent country because Communism Bad #and then treat the poor folks fleeing the conditions we created like criminals #all because if a country was doing even moderately okay without capitalism it'd be bad for the shareholders I guess #anyway the fort was cool but I don't know how to photograph ruins well

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