Using their trusty new map, we tried a new trail at Alligator Lake Park in early June. As warned, there is an airboat crossing on the far side of the trail, or at least a deep ditch with slippery sides and a very small stream at the bottom.

The mosquitoes were bad. But far more numerous than the mosquitoes were the millipedes. Nearly everywhere there wasn’t a lot of vegitation, there were millipedes, here, there, and crawling over each other.

A frog, with more millipedes in the background

There were two gar fish, with different patterns, in the larger stream which has a nice bridge crossing it.

This is probably a pump from when they kept this area drained for farm land

Halloween pennant. Right after this we saw a gaggle of tender turklings running off.

Pale meadow beauty