Our stay in Florida has been AMAZING so far! It is sunny almost all of the time and warm. We stayed at a pretty nice campground, but we were in the kind of “run down” area of the campground. Our RV park was around 15 minutes from the beach. During our stay there both Huckleberry and I got sick, but thankfully we are better now. The place that we just left was really beautiful, but there definitely were some cons. First of all there were mosquitos which weren’t all that bad, but there were these little flea-sized biting bugs called “biting midges” that left us with MILLIONS of super duper duper itchy bites. The water that we had to drink there was AWFUL, it had so much sulfur in it that it was almost unbearable to drink. There were dolphins and manatees in the lake.
Animals of the Everglades
We are now staying in Miami near the Everglades.
Snakes
YIKES! There are 23 species of snakes in the Florida everglades. There are six species of poisonous snakes in Florida: the Canebrake rattlesnake, the Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake, the Dusky Pygmy rattlesnake, the Florida Cottonmouth snake, the Southern Copperhead snake, and the Eastern Coral snake. Also Burmese Pythons, the 5th largest snakes in the world, live in the Everglades, length ranging from 11ft. to 19ft.
Mammals
White-tailed deer
Domestic Pig
Domestic dog
Florida Panther
Bobcat
Striped skunk
Long-tailed weasel
Everglades Mink
Raccoon
Eastern spotted skunk
Grey fox
Black bear
Red fox
Pilot whale
Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin
Nine-banded armadillo
Opossum
Eastern cottontail
Marsh rabbit
Southern flying squirrel
House mouseI
Roundtail muskrat
Rice rat
Cotton mouse
Norway rat
Roof rat
Gray squirrel
Fox squirrel
Cotton rat
West Indian Manatee
Short-tailed shrew
Least shrew
Eastern mole
Reptiles
Here is a shortened version of the reptiles, there were too many to label.
American Alligator
American Crocodile
Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
Eastern Indigo Snake
Florida King snakes
Giant Land Crabs
Gopher Tortoises
Green Tree frogs
Rough Green Snake
Tree Snail Iguanas