This island was home to the Calusa | Bigkitty Gallery

Created on: Wednesday 20 February 2013
Posted on: Sunday 3 September 2017
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Red burst with a little camera movement

Nice even though the camera moved

Wolf Eel, Atlantic Creole Fish

Red Coral Sea Fan

White-blotched river sting ray

Puffin on a rock

Erica's favorite one

Little shaky camera, but still nice

Looking out toward the ocean via the York River

Sunset view from land on Yorktown Beach

Yellow seahorse

Stingray gliding

Sunflower sea star

Better look at the moon jellyfish

Possible Emperor Angelfish and a Treadfin Butterflyfish

George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge

Schooner Serenity

Emerald tree boa

Neat unknown fish

On the right - Silver Arowana

Brad and Cheryl waiting to set sail

Emerald tree boa

Nurse shark and a stingray

Awesome sign we found in the train yard

Random small fish

Headed back to land

South American Yellow-footed Tortoise

Lantern Fish Model

Orange-ish Sunflower Sea Star

View of the screens going down the escalator

Erica helped raise the sail

Copperband Butterflyfish

Palette Surgeonfish

Closer view of the stingray

A train we pass on our short round trip ride

Another bird in the Rain forest

Copperband Butterflyfish

Gray unknown fish

Brian lounging during the sail

The sail is fully up

Looking up before sailing off

Poison dart frog

Sailing during wonderful weather

Sandbar shark swimming above the nurse shark and stingray

Even the ropes can't hinder the view

Creatures of the abyss

Random fish in the exhibit: North Atlantic to the Pacific

Longsnout sea horses

Spotfin Butterflyfish

Skeleton of a Fin Whale from Cape Cod

Giant Waxy Tree Frog

Diamondback Terrapin at the Maryland Exhibit

Walking on the platform

Tail of a fin whale

Percula Clownfish

Yellow tang fishes swimming around

It's almost fully up

Peacock Mantis Shrimp

Different Coral

Longhorn Cowfish

A whale of a bone

Long-tail Knifefish electromagnetic field

Panther Grouper

The pilot of this cruise

Small fish with snails

Beautiful sunset!

Wonderful rainbow of sunset colors

Cross section of a lake

Possible Treadfin Butterflyfish

Swainson’s lorikeet in the Australia: Wild Extremes

Fangtooth model

Random coral on shipwreck stuff

Shrimp hiding in the rock

Unknown fish but it looks cool!

Different states of water

Without Water...

Top of the sails

Above the water view of Calypso a Green Sea Turtle

Banggai Cardinalfish

Brian on the train

Black sea urchin with Banggai Cardinalfish

Side of another train at the platform

Calypso, a 3 leg Green Sea Turtle

Sea horse hiding and Brain Coral

The conductor of the train

With every drop you drink...

Front entry waterfall

Top view of Blacktip Reef

Wonderful weather

Various plants on Mound Key, FL

Jazz in her car seat

Bright pink ones

What do manatees eat?

There are a lot of these pink flowers

More small islands

Train we took a ride on

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

Anatomy of a Manatee

This island was home to the Calusa

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

Beautiful calm ocean

Manatee is related to an elephant

Manatee skeleton

The winter weather takes over the Fall footprints

AA League in Cape Cod, number 27 year of 2013

Exit certain doom

My hat to keep me warm

Ice washed up the beach

Snow drifts into the beach grass

Liger, Doc, Kody, and Rajani

Jazz says "this is the only way to be in a pool."

Dad's got the rear of the kayak

Lots of birds live in there

Along the mangrove trees

Wonderfully calm and serine

Even in winter the view is beautiful

Winter at the beach

Dad says "Are you ready yet? It's cold!"

My yearly Christmas/New Years trip to the Atlantic Ocean

Crab with a mo hawk!

Horse shoe crab with barnacles

Small fish swimming against the current

Moss covered crab

Cool reflecting wave

A defiant Spider Crab

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

Enjoying a game in Orleans, MA with my dad

Ripples of the ocean

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