Miami Everglades Park March 28

Well, today has been a cooler day by Florida standards, about 22 C.  We spent the morning having a last visit with Dieter and Heather, then we headed down the highway in the direction of Miami ....  for about 15 minutes until we discovered that we had left our laundry in the dryer at the park.  After a quick consideration of time vs. clothing needs, we decided that clothes were nice to have, so we headed back to Riverside.  

Lots of palm trees along the highways, but also fields with crops that in some places looked newly planted. In others we saw what looked like people harvesting. And....... trucks loaded with oranges!! I remember the taste of fresh oranges is SO different from the store bought ones, so, tomorrow we'll look for a fruit stand and sample - a few!!

We drove through a place called "alligator alley", where I-75 cuts thru a preservation area, and expected to see alligators along the side of the road, but truth is that there are 8 or 10 foot electric fences well back from the road and another just like it about 20 feet inside the first.  Not sure an alligator could get through that.  Oh well, I was all set to stop the car and take a picture if we saw one, and that might not have been too safe so it might be all for the best.  

We stopped late in the afternoon at Miami Everglades RV park which, although perhaps a bit overpriced ($62 for the night), is very pretty, has everything you could want and is incredibly busy.  I took Maxie for a walk tonight and there are tons of young families with kids.  Oh, and a couple of Rottweilers in the dog park who, if we had been foolish enough to open the gate, would have had us both for "lunch".  

We brought our electric turkey roaster to use as an oven and had a fabulous ham dinner in mind for supper complete with roasted sweet potatoes.  Forgot that you can't use anything like a toaster or kettle when the silly roaster is turned on, so it took me a while to "reset the breakers" on the trailer!! (Karl and Max had gone for a long walk).  Oh well, all turned out well in the end.  We had a great, albeit late, supper.  

The sunset tonight is a beautiful red/pink.  What is the saying, red sky at night, sailor's delight?  

Tomorrow we will head straight for the Everglades National Park visitors' centre, about 40 miles away!! ... with the intent of finding a campsite in the Everglades Park. If that fails we'll carry on and look in the Keys.