Southern Camping Trip 2024 / Day 37

Koreshan State Park

Estero, Florida

Thursday, March 7, 2024 

So we went in to the woods...

Marc-    Today's destination was the Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve in Fort Myers with Donna & Frank, who thought up this adventure.  This is in fact an 11 mile long nature preserve consisting of a slough or flowing wetland inhabited by owls, various wading and migratory birds, alligators, turtles river otters, snakes and frogs.  We saw a swallow-tail kite, double-crested cormorants, great egrets nesting in trees, turtles, and a ring necked snake.  The trails consist of connecting boardwalks through the very wetland.

Later we all met up with our friend Roberta for a wonderful meal at the Deep Lagoon Seafood Restaurant on the Caloosahatchee River.  The restaurant is next to a Boston Whaler boat dealer.  These high end fishing boats all have massive outboards motors with some having three six-hundred horse power outboards on the transom.

It's Florida so everything keeps growing year round.

Exotic plant growing on a Cypress tree.

Turtles

Cypress Trees

Cormorants

Another turtle

Screech Owl 

"Grandma Cypress"

Iris

Frank, Donna & 2 snowbirds