The boat ride. It is a nice transition from the road work to the wild.
Even before the actual park a couple of Osprey posed at extreme zoom.
Red Fox
Flamingos of course.
"The Bird, Mister Spade."
"He's nothing but a dandified buzzard, . . . dandified."
Canebreak Rattlesnake.
River Otter.
Florida Black Bear.
The boat driver said that the TV producer, Ivan Tors (Sea Hunt, Flipper, Science Fiction Theater, AND Gentle Ben, among others) owned or had something to do with the old park. Gentle Ben (it was his screen name) wintered there. (A "snowbear?") Anyway Ben wander about loose and would go across the highway (19) and knock on the back door of a restaurant and the cook would feed him. Heck, it might be true.