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Old 22 Aug 19, 02:08 AM  
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Mobile Marco island day 5! Everglade boat ride, pool and pizza

Today was a more relaxed day after our busy couple of weeks. We go up and drank orange juice by our Tikki Bar, our original plan had been to go to the beach but as Lily couldn't get her face wet due to her smashing her mouth up on the bottom of the pool , we decided to avoid the beach.
As we are close to the Everglades we decided to go on a airboat tour.
We drove the 30 minutes to Everglade city and when we arrived there were lots of different people to go with. We chose Everglade City because they had good ratings on Trip Advisor.
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We were soon on our boat ready for our one hour tour.
We went in an airboat tour with Kissimmee swamp tours two years ago. This was great with only one boat going out at a time. We saw lots of Alligators but also turtles and many kinds of birds. As we are interested in wildlife we found this really enjoyable.
Today wasn't quite the same, we didn't see any birds and the waterways were very busy. But we did enjoy the ride and our guide took us through the mangroves which were lovely to see and gave us lots of information as we went along.
Here are some of the views...

We saw a couple of small Alligators but eventually came across this monster!

We also saw a Raccoon!

We then headed back to the dock, our guide had a look for manatees but they were a no show. We had a couple of pictures taken.

We were then dropped off and we tipped our guide. It was s fun morning and I'm glad we did I but having done the Kissimmee swamp tours I wouldn't go with these again.

We drove back to Marco Island, James and Lily wanted to go to the ice cream shop as they had money from their grandparents which was for buying ice cream.
They had been given $75 each to spend but both of them are reluctant to spend it!
So I have made them get an ice cream each as with the exchange rate being poor and then losing out when it is converted back into English money they will lose out.
So off we went to get an ice cream. I didn't get a picture but they were delicious!

After nearly two weeks of eating out, we all felt ready for a night in.
We got home around 5 pm an jumped into the pool.
We split into teams and worked out our synchronise swimming routines. This was very funny! Lily couldn't get her face wet an Mark isn't confident in the water so they made a team in the shallow end. James and I were in the deep end. We had food laugh at our routines which basically looked like we were all drowning!😁

James and Lily stayed in the pool for a little longer and we then ordered a pizza to be delivered.
It was quite expensive but then this arrived!


Guess whose having pizza for breakfast!😉
We were all tired so we sat and watched Shark Tank, we really need to find something else to watch!
We are going to have an early night as tomorrow we are going to the beach.
Thank you for reading
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Old 24 Aug 19, 09:12 AM  
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Enjoying your trip reports ,Any more plans on going out sea fishing
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Old 24 Aug 19, 10:01 AM  
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We have fished every day in various places.
Yesterday and the day before we fished just standing waist high in the sea and off the lagoon on Tiger Tail Beach. We have caught:
Goats Heads(ugly things!)
Lady fish
Snapper
Pin fish.
More catfish
And lots more.
We have only chartered a boat once this year but Mark would love to come back next year and do it again. It's not everyone's cup of tea but its beautiful here.
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Old 24 Aug 19, 10:15 AM  
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I'm not sure if you have seen this but this was the day we went sea fishing.
https://www.thedibb.co.uk/forums/sho... php?t=1142253

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Old 24 Aug 19, 07:40 PM  
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Have you got round to bbq any of your catch.Am looking forward to your further reports keeping them coming please

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