After my little trip home to Arizona, I flew back to Florida in search of a new boat. The job search was slow, so we took a little day trip out to the Everglades to see what it was all about. Airboats!
And alligators! They boasted that one of these big guys was the star of the Lubriderm commercial. I later googled it and found that for at least one version they used animatronic gators, but I still want so badly to believe.
The captain of our airboat was quite the character.
The airboat glides over the sawgrass in water that is sometimes only a few inches deep.
An absolute master at finding the well camouflaged wildlife, our guide took the boat right up to the alligators for a little meet 'n greet.
This one-armed (well, he was missing a front limb) showoff displaying the eye he lost in a fight. And his pearly whites.
The everglades is not a swamp, but a really really slow flowing river. Merely a half a mile a day. We learned a lot of interesting everglades trivia on our trip... unfortunately most of which I can't remember since it was a while ago, and I'm so far behind in my blogging....
Speaking of behind in my blogging... Here's Florida holiday snow, just in time for Christmas.
Attended the very festive Ft. Lauderdale's Holiday Boat Parade, but the boats didn't cooperate with my camera so I'm just going to tell you that it was very fun.
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