Erica's white legs that got very burnt | Bigkitty Gallery

Created on: Wednesday 20 February 2013
Posted on: Sunday 3 September 2017
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Albums: Vacations / Florida / Nature / Kayaking in Estero Bay
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Wonderful weather

Various plants on Mound Key, FL

Bright pink ones

What do manatees eat?

There are a lot of these pink flowers

More small islands

Going around different small islands

Cactus growing everywhere

Looks like a smaller area on a map

Starting to leave the park

Manatee vs. Human

How they made their canoes

Paddling next to the shore

Heading toward a slightly larger island

Mound Key State Archaeological Site information

This island was home to the Calusa

Anatomy of a Manatee

Erica's white legs that got very burnt

Couple of manatees (one with part of head out of water)

Other creatures you can see at the park

Setting out into Estero Bay

Manatee is related to an elephant

Manatee skeleton

All gone...what a beauty to watch!

This is how close we were while kayaking.

A grown up oyster bar, now a mangrove tree island.

Just about there

Basic oyster bar

Private community beach.

Rainbow at sunset

Sun starting to set.

Going down soon

Dad's got the rear of the kayak

Lots of birds live in there

Along the mangrove trees

Is the world realy round? Looks flat!

Wonderfully calm and serine

Woody Woodpecker in person

Another view (officially Pileated Woodpecker)

Backside of an Anhinga

Left: Little Blue Heron Right: Anhinga

Little Blue Heron

Common Cooter Turtle

Upper: Louisiana [aka Tricolor] Heron Lower: Purple Gallinule

Left: Anhinga paddling Right: Anhinga drying

Drying out - Anhinga

Anhinga and Common Cooter turtle

A mature air plant with flower stem

Tree up-shot, we love these.

Airplants growing on trees

Upper: Louisiana [aka Tricolor] Heron Lower: Purple Gullinule

Black-Crowned Night-Heron

They have left the park

Nice view of a tail

Calves and parents together

Gathering family members

About 7 manatees

One coming to the surface

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