| Florida Tour 8 | |
| The Everglades | |
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| Key Largo (above) and the Tamiami Canal which runs alongside the Tamiami Highway (above) - US Highway 41 which connects Tampa and Miami - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The Everglades. You can hire a bicycle or take the tram (US parlance - actually a minibus towing a trailer) out along the road leading to the Observation Tower in the Shark Valley Slough . . . | |
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| . . . but beware of the alligators - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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| The slough is a vast shallow slow flowing river a few feet deep and several miles wide - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Because the tram tows a trailer it was unable to reverse after stopping on a bend when this alligator was spotted - only those in the trailer got a decent photo. But everyone got a photo of the tortoise - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The Observation Tower . . . |
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| . . . and an angry bird that made us far from welcome - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The clumps of foliage are actually islands in the slough covered in tropical hardwood hammocks - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| From the Observation Tower you can take a walk . . . |
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| . . . but you have literally to keep a good lookout for alligators and you are warned not to get too close - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |