101 TRAVEL BITS

At the end of the main road through Everglades National Park sits the small community of Flamingo. For those who visit Flamingo (and the...

If you visit the website for Everglades National Park , you'll find all the information you would expect: entrance fees, information on things to do, etc. However, you'll also find information about a peculiar problem : black vultures tearing apart the vinyl and rubber components of vehicles in the park. It seems a bit odd - vultures tearing up cars? It doesn't seem like this is something real. At least, I didn't think it sounded real. Except, it's very real. In March, we vis

Recently, we had a chance to visit Everglades National Park. One place we got to visit was the Gumbo Limbo Trail. Beginning at the Royal...

Time for an excerpt from our book, 101 Travel Bits: Everglades National Park. Today's excerpt is from the book's entry on the Anhinga Trail, one of the park's hiking trails. "Starting from the Royal Palm Visitor Center, the Anhinga Trail is an easy, 0.8 mile (1.3 km), wheelchair accessible trail that winds through a slough and a sawgrass marsh. The trail is probably the best place in the park to get an up-close view of wildlife like alligators, turtles, and birds; the trail

Time for an excerpt from our book, 101 Travel Bits: Everglades National Park. Today's excerpt is from the book's entry on Flamingo, a small community on the Gulf of Mexico. "Sitting at the southern end of the Main Road and the Wilderness Waterway, Flamingo was once a small town, but is now the southern headquarters of Everglades National Park. From Flamingo, visitors can take numerous hiking trails and paddling trails to explore the Everglades. First settled by people of Eu

Time for an excerpt from our book, 101 Travel Bits: Everglades National Park. Today's excerpt is from the book's entry on one of the many fish that make the park home - the lionfish. "There are many invasive species threatening Everglades National Park. The lionfish ( Pterois volitans ) is one of those species. Native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, it is thought lionfish were introduced to the Caribbean during the 1980s after being released by aquarium owners who no long