Diane at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park. The lighthouse is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

Corey at Bill Baggs State Park on Key Biscayne 

This is your typical intracoastal waterway home, nice house, landscaping, and of course a boat. If you look on an area map there are literally miles and miles of little canals and such with all these nice homes scattered about 

South on the beach at Hugh Taylor Birch State Park. An interesting note, this is right in the middle of Ft Lauderdale, and in 1893 he puchased this beachfront property for $1 an acre. He donated the land to prevent development missing out on a nice return. 

Looking north on the Atlantic in Ft Lauderdale at Hugh Taylor Birch State Park 

This is looking north on the Atlantic coast in Hollywood. The water was a real nice aqua color with waves about 2-3 feet. Nice sand, a little more coarse than PCB, but real soft 

Back to the Atlantic coast, this is a kite surfer off the beach in Hollywood, FL 

Beach looking South 

Beach in Naples looking North 

Corey sitting on remnants of an old pier 

Diane at sunset in Naples 

Naples 

Sunset in Naples, got there just in time for some good pics 

Nice view of the Everglades in the late afternoon, looking to the East, the Cypress were kind of lit up by the setting sun 

There was one stretch of road on a 'scenic loop' we took that was infested with gators. This little guy kind of charged right up to the car 

This guy was laying right by the road just taking it easy.  

Right in the middle is a gator waiting for the lone tourist to come by. We were standing right there taking pictures for a minute before we saw him 

This is what alot of the Everglades looks like, 50 mile wide river of grass. The clumps of trees, or any thing other than sawgrass represent a slight change in elevation, which drastically changes the landscape 

Flowers with gift shop in the background, Miami Zoo 

Flower with lizard in the background 

Corey enjoying the Everglades. There's a good network of boardwalks and trails so you can get view of the different landscapes throughout the park 

Monorail that goes over the different areas of the zoo, it's quite spread out and it was pouring down and lighting right after this shot, so we saw alot of the zoo from above 

Diane and Corey waiting for the monorail 

Asian domain, tigers were sleeping out of view 

Corey in front of the Miami Metro Zoo, there was storm approaching, so we pretty much had the zoo to ourselves, athough the animals were in hiding, probably because the storm, so not alot of good animal pics