The Tamiami Trail was built by digging a canal and filling in the area next to it, so the canal filled with water and the alligators showed up. The alligators live so close to the road that anyone driving west can count them as they drive. It's a little spooky.
We stopped at the National Park in the Everglades to watch the gators, birds, and fish from a walkway that was built about 6 feet above the canal. A park ranger who was giving us answers to all our questions told me they don't feed the gators, but there were quite a few huge ones right in front of their building in the canal. Coincidence?
We stayed in our motorhome over night in the parking lot and we were met the next morning by a different park ranger who told us he could have given us a ticket, but he gave us a written warning instead. No overnight parking at the park even though there's no sign posted.
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