EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK (02/2011)

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This is why this is my favorite National Park!

 This was a very nice sighting - A Barred Owl

hiding way back in the mahogany hammocks!

 On the Anhinga Trail, there were a lot of nests

of anhingas with their babies

 Cute little green heron fishing

 An anhinga with a bigger catch!

Great Blue Heron

Cormorant (beautiful turquoise eyes!)

 Red-shouldered hawk (I am surprised he sat

so still with me so close to him)

 Wood Storks

 Osprey

 Purple gallinule

 Turtles thermal regulating

 A little nest of baby gators

 And LOTS of adult gators all over the park

Boardwalk through the mahogany hammocks

 Gumbo limbo tree

 Cypress trees

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM AT THE LORRAINE MOTEL

The National Civil Rights Museum was birthed out of the success of the civil rights movement and the tragic violence that occurred at the Lorraine Motel, taking the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  On April 4, 1968, while Dr. King stood on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel, he was assassinated, felled by one bullet. His life was cut short at the age of 39.  Read more about the museum at http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/home.htm

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The motel was left exactly as  it was on the

day Dr.  King was assassinated.  His car is

still parked in front of his room

Room 306 - Dr. King's Room

James Earl Ray shot Dr. King from a bathroom window in this

roominghouse, which is across the street from the Lorraine Motel