Music is large part of my life and is a large aspect in the human existence in general. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that another big facet of my life, travel, and music go well together. This combination is not just a big part of my life, but also is true for many other [...]
Tag Archives | Florida adventure travel
Highlands Hammock boardwalk trail snakes through the cypress swamp
Take a walk on the planked trail at Highland’s Hammock State Park in Florida for a beautiful elevated trip through a cypress swamp. When people think of Florida, everyone thinks the Everglades. The state has a bountiful reserve of state parks, rivers, and lakes worth checking out from the Panhandle to the Keys. Come and [...]
Canoeing on the Suwannee River where the water looks like coal
I am no Stephen Foster as you can tell by the title of this post. The Suwannee River begins in the famed Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia and flows 246 miles into northern Florida and eventually enters the Gulf of Mexico. It has been made famous thanks to Stephen Foster’s “Old Folks at Home” and also [...]
Camping with raccoons and dogs in Everglades National Park
Camping with raccoons in Florida or anywhere can be interesting to say the least. Many parks have problems with critters big and small, but the most interesting confrontations I have had with wildlife have been with raccoons in the Everglades National Park. The first story comes from a camping trip out to Cape Sable on [...]
Purple gallinule struts along a Florida Everglades shoreline
A bird I had never seen before is the beautiful purple gallinule, but this is a familiar refrain when you go to the Everglades National Park in Florida. I would walk around the corner and run into a bittern, which was another bird I had never seen before, but that photo is for another day. [...]
Baby alligators in the Everglades: awwwww aren’t they cute
Everybody loves babies, and alligators are no different. During a hike along the Shark Valley 11 mile loop in late January in the Everglades National Park in Florida, a few years back, I came upon a series of baby alligator nests. I had seen many alligators large and small previous to this, but this was [...]
6 jungle expeditions for incredible adventure travel
A jungle is defined as land densely overgrown with tropical vegetation. A place overgrown with tropical vegetation is sure to be teaming with flora and fauna. Due to the impenetrable nature of jungles, they can be difficult places to hike and adventure travel in, but the reward of a jungle expedition is great. African jungles [...]
Roseate spoonbill wading in a Florida Everglades pond
When it comes to birds everyone loves exotics. Is there anything more exotic than a large pink wading bird whose beak is shaped like a spoon? One can clearly see where the name roseate spoonbill comes from. The beak is specially designed to comb the muddy waters in search of small fish, mollusk, shrimp, and [...]
Paddling with alligators and crocodiles in Florida
This post started out as a photo essay on the differences between alligators and crocodiles as part of my new daily travel photo section. Click here to check out the series While writing the intro to the photos, I suddenly had a lot more to say than a mere paragraph on the subject, and while [...]
Anhinga in the Florida Everglades
This photo was take in the Florida Everglades National Park. One of the most intriguing birds is the anhinga, also called the snake bird. The bird can dive into the water then swim and impale fish with its knife like beak, but there is one problem. The man upstairs neglected to give it any protection [...]
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