After Day 5 in Florida

Uh..... I forgot what I did on which day after Day 5 since it's been about six months since I came back from Florida. But here's a rundown of some other cool things I saw and did.

I spent a day at Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge. Actually, I spent about two days there. On one of the days I took a trolley tour through the refuge and the tour guide was a very nice elderly woman who told us about the habitat and wild life. We saw tree crabs, flying fish (no really, the fish would jump a few feet out of the water and then back in), and all kinds of birds. I really liked the tour but there wasn't enough time for all the pictures I wanted to take, so I came back the next day and spent about 3 hours or so on the grounds.

On one of the evenings, I took a sunset cruise in the refuge. This picture is from that trip. If you're going to take a cruise, I'd highly recommend the sunset one because you see more birds and you see them in a way you wouldn't if it weren't sunset.

I saw amazing birds. I saw blue crabs. I saw sunlight. I saw sea shells. I saw beaches. I saw mangroves. It was absolutely amazing.


There were mangrove islands, sandbars where birds would gather, treetops where the birds would perch.


But the most amazing thing I saw were the sunsets. But I'll have a separate post of photos for that.

Beaches. Did I mention how amazing the beaches are? Did I also mention that they're all made of shell? So you get to see all these beauties everywhere! And I got a decent collection of those. :)