This island was home to the Calusa | Bigkitty Gallery

Created on: Wednesday 20 February 2013
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Enjoying a game in Orleans, MA with my dad

One coming to the surface

About 7 manatees

Gathering family members

Calves and parents together

Nice view of a tail

They have left the park

A defiant Spider Crab

Cool reflecting wave

Small fish swimming against the current

Moss covered crab

Horse shoe crab with barnacles

Crab with a mo hawk!

My yearly Christmas/New Years trip to the Atlantic Ocean

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

Winter at the beach

Even in winter the view is beautiful

Wonderfully calm and serine

Along the mangrove trees

Lots of birds live in there

Dad's got the rear of the kayak

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

Liger, Doc, Kody, and Rajani

Ice washed up the beach

Snow drifts into the beach grass

My hat to keep me warm

Exit certain doom

AA League in Cape Cod, number 27 year of 2013

The winter weather takes over the Fall footprints

Manatee skeleton

Manatee is related to an elephant

Beautiful calm ocean

Setting out into Estero Bay

Other creatures you can see at the park

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

Erica's white legs that got very burnt

Anatomy of a Manatee

This island was home to the Calusa

Mound Key State Archaeological Site information

Heading toward a slightly larger island

Paddling next to the shore

How they made their canoes

Manatee vs. Human

Starting to leave the park

Looks like a smaller area on a map

Cactus growing everywhere

Going around different small islands

More small islands

Train we took a ride on

There are a lot of these pink flowers

What do manatees eat?

Bright pink ones

Jazz in her car seat

Various plants on Mound Key, FL

Wonderful weather

Top view of Blacktip Reef

Front entry waterfall

With every drop you drink...

The conductor of the train

Sea horse hiding and Brain Coral

Side of another train at the platform

Calypso, a 3 leg Green Sea Turtle

Banggai Cardinalfish

Brian on the train

Black sea urchin with Banggai Cardinalfish

Above the water view of Calypso a Green Sea Turtle

Without Water...

Top of the sails

Different states of water

Unknown fish but it looks cool!

Shrimp hiding in the rock

Random coral on shipwreck stuff

Fangtooth model

Small fish with snails

Possible Treadfin Butterflyfish

Swainson’s lorikeet in the Australia: Wild Extremes

Beautiful sunset!

Wonderful rainbow of sunset colors

Cross section of a lake

The pilot of this cruise

A whale of a bone

Panther Grouper

Long-tail Knifefish electromagnetic field

Peacock Mantis Shrimp

Longhorn Cowfish

Different Coral

Tail of a fin whale

Yellow tang fishes swimming around

It's almost fully up

Percula Clownfish

Giant Waxy Tree Frog

Skeleton of a Fin Whale from Cape Cod

Walking on the platform

Diamondback Terrapin at the Maryland Exhibit

Longsnout sea horses

Spotfin Butterflyfish

Creatures of the abyss

Random fish in the exhibit: North Atlantic to the Pacific

Even the ropes can't hinder the view

Poison dart frog

Sailing during wonderful weather

Sandbar shark swimming above the nurse shark and stingray

Looking up before sailing off

Brian lounging during the sail

Gray unknown fish

Copperband Butterflyfish

The sail is fully up

Copperband Butterflyfish

A train we pass on our short round trip ride

Closer view of the stingray

Another bird in the Rain forest

Palette Surgeonfish

View of the screens going down the escalator

Erica helped raise the sail

Headed back to land

Random small fish

Orange-ish Sunflower Sea Star

South American Yellow-footed Tortoise

Lantern Fish Model

Nurse shark and a stingray

Awesome sign we found in the train yard

On the right - Silver Arowana

Emerald tree boa

Emerald tree boa

Brad and Cheryl waiting to set sail

Neat unknown fish

Schooner Serenity

George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge

Possible Emperor Angelfish and a Treadfin Butterflyfish

Better look at the moon jellyfish

Yellow seahorse

Stingray gliding

Sunflower sea star

Looking out toward the ocean via the York River

Sunset view from land on Yorktown Beach

Little shaky camera, but still nice

Erica's favorite one

Red Coral Sea Fan

White-blotched river sting ray

Puffin on a rock

Wolf Eel, Atlantic Creole Fish

Nice even though the camera moved

Red burst with a little camera movement

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