Nazan and I started our anniversary with an sunrise visit to the Anhinga Trail, which was a very cold windy morning. Then we decided to hike some more sheltered places like the Royal Palm Hammock and the Pinelands Trail. In the evening we took advantage of some of the great Mexican food here in Homestead, they even had the Packers game on so we got to watch the packers loose.
This first photo I have to give credit to Nazan for pointing it out to me. She has a pretty good eye for interesting details. This is a fern, which at the moment the name escapes me, and the dots under the frond are the spores.
Here is the fabulous bird that the Anhinga Trail is named after, there are hundreds of anhingas and they are starting to nest. The turquoise color around their red eyes comes during breeding season.
Here is a frost photo from this morning. I’ll have to find out when the last frost in the Everglades was, I would image this is not a very common occurrence. This afternoon driving back into the park after taking Nazan to the airport I could see it damaged many plants, there were a lot of trees and shrubs looking pretty brown.
