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THINGS TO DO
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Miami - Whether you're into sports, sunshine or salsa, Miami sizzles all year long with exciting entertainment venues and attractions, world-class hotels and restaurants, great beaches and a nightlife that never sleeps. While South Beach, full of chic nightclubs and pastel-hued buildings, gets all the press, other sections of Miami are offer culture, recreation and more. Explore the Art Deco District or take the kids to the zoo. At night chill out at any of the area's cool bars and nightclubs.
Everglades National Park
Experience the thrilling excitement of a speeding
airboat through the Everglades at Saw grass Recreation Park! Climb aboard
and glide thru the water trails amidst the "Sea of Grass" with an
experienced guide who will make brief stops along the way to show you
nature's highlights ... the Kings and Queens of the Everglades... the
Alligators! Your informative and fun tour will include one of the world's
most unique and one-of-a kind eco-systems, a stop at the Alligator and
Reptile Exhibit and a visit to the replica 18th Century Seminole Indian
Village. Boat rentals, tackle, bait, and fishing licenses also available.
The Everglades is a hot mild place, in the summer
the temperature can get up to around 90
degrees Fahrenheit and humidity over 90% now that's hot. There is plenty
of grass and trees for the animals to go when the temperature gets that
hot. There are plenty of activities at the everglades national park you
can go camping, canoeing, fishing, lodging.
Florida Bay, the largest body of water within
everglades national park, containing more than 800 square miles of
marine wetlands, much of Florida's sea grass. The
sea grass shelters fish and shellfish and sustains the food chain that
supports all higher vertebrates in the bay. The hard bottom areas are
home to corals and sponges.
There are some fruits that the fish eats when the
fall of the branches. Mangrove forests are found in the coastal channels
and rivers around the tip of South Florida. This estuary system is a
valuable nursery for shrimp and fish. Many fish in the river of the
everglades very bright in color and can be quite dangerous in some way.
The everglades is nursery for the animals and their young babies
sheltering them for the bigger animals like the birds in the sky or the
gators in the waters swimming around looking for food.
The slough is deeper and faster flowing center
of a broad marshy river. The marshy river moves at a leisurely pace of
100ft per day. Shark river slough, the river of grass and Taylor slough
are narrow eastern branches of rivers. There are series of other slough
through the big cypress swamp supply freshwater to western Florida bay
and the ten thousand islands.
There are many trees in the everglades one special
one is the cypress tree is a delicious and beautiful tree that can
survive in the standing waters. The cypress tree in the deep soil in the
center grows taller than those on the outside. Stunted cypress trees,
called dwarf cypress, grows poorly in dry soil and shallow soil on drier
land.
Over the past few years the Florida everglades have
been destroyed by the hurricanes and bad weather over a period of time.
Some animals unfortunately died because of the weather from the major
hurricanes. Now they rebuild the everglades and have lots more animals
in it and is back to perfect condition with much larger room for more
animals and a bigger staff to care for the animals. Many people from all
around the world have visited the national park to see the fascinating
animals and to just experience the feeling of the outdoors with the
animals and get that anxious feeling of what the animals feel when they
in the wild.
The rocks beneath the big cypress swamps are among
the oldest in Florida. Sediments of silt, sand and particles of calcium
deposited on the bottom of the sea and gradually settled into limestone.
Other rocks that settled beneath the everglade swamps were formed during
the times of the Great ice age. In quieter
waters covering the central portions of the Florida everglades national
Park, tiny moss animals called Bryozoans flourished. As they died their
calcium skeletons settled to the bottom. These sediments later cemented
into rock known as the Miami Bryzoan Limestone. Development of the Florida's Everglades National Park
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Everglades National Park SOUTH MIAMI
There are two large National Parks near Miami. The Everglades National
Park is the largest remaining subtropical wilderness in the USA. It has
more than 1.5 million acres of natural habitat with over half of it under
water. The main entrance is reached via Florida City south of Miami. It is
open all seasons.
The Everglades national park is full of fascinating
animals that are so amazing and have so much energy. They rescue the
animals that have been damage or endangered and bring them to the park
and treat them with love and care them back to perfect health.
One of the best ways to experience the Everglades
is to get out into it for an extended visit. With 156 miles (251 km) of
canoe/kayak and walking trails and 47 designated wilderness campsites,
opportunities for solitude are abundant.
Water in South Florida once flowed freely from the
Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee and southward over low-lying lands to
the estuaries of Biscayne Bay, the Ten Thousand Islands, and Florida
Bay. This shallow, slow-moving sheet of water covered almost 11,000
square miles, creating a mosaic of ponds, sloughs, saw grass marshes,
hardwood hammock, and forested uplands. For thousands of years this
intricate system evolved into a finely balanced ecosystem that formed
the biological infrastructure for the southern half of the state.