Friday we woke up, had breakfast and decided it would be a good day to head to Myakka State Park (about 30 minutes away). It was going to be a warm, sunny day.....until later afternoon/evening when there was a chance for showers.
The brochure for Myakka Park said that alligators were "abundant" and gave instructions not to feed them or approach them. Here was a sign just in case you forgot....
Our first stop was the canopy walk. It's a walkway suspended 25 feet above the ground and extends 100 feet through the hammock canopy. Completed in 2000, it's the first public treetop trail in North America. The world's longest walkway is in Peru.
When you get to the end, you can climb a wooden tower that soars 74 feet in the air to get a good view of the Florida wetlands/prairie.
Pretty big alligator sunning himself.
The kids got really good at spotting these little geckos. In fact, they are so common in buildings in Florida that they are called "house lizards." Luckily, we only saw them outside. I think from what I've read, this is a brown anole lizard.
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