Welcome to the Everglades!:-)
crocs, hydroglisseurs et arbres-crocodile(s)… croquons la vie! 🙂
Les Everglades ne sont pas les marécages légendaires comme bcp de gens le pensent. Techniquement parler, c’est une rivière qui coule lentement au sud-ouest, d’environ 1/4 de mile par jour. Ce beau parc national est la plus étendue région subtropicale sauvage des USA et il fait partie du patrimoine mondial UNESCO depuis 1979.
crocs, airboats and crocodile trees… let’s “bite” life! 🙂
The Everglades are not the proverbial swamps many people consider them to be. It is technically a river, flowing southwest at the slow rate of about a quarter mile per day. This amazing National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the US and it’s been a World Heritage Site since 1979; more here: http://www.nps.gov/ever/index.htm
Posted on 9 June 2014, in melanie. Bookmark the permalink. 46 Comments.
my virtual playground 
Love it!!! Again… I love when you redirect me to a post on your site! Have a mucho beautiful day!!! ❤
❤ thanx, young lady! I know you do, that's why whenever I come across "stuff" in common, I let you know, redirect you and keep you posted… 😉 it's dinner time here, so: enjoy your lunch over there! 🙂
I’m starving and getting ready to indulge!!! Much love Melanie! ❤
Everglades always intrigue me as does the Bayous of America. We have some gigantic crocs here in Australia, and every year we lose a few tourists who don’t understand the signs sayin ‘No Swimming’. Regards, Emu aka Ian
I do recall the bayous from Texas and Louisiana… 🙂 speakin’ of those giant Aussie crocs and irresponsible tourists, scroll down, please and you’ll see my dialogue about them with Mr Smith, your fellow countryman… 🙂
wow nice pics, Melanie
gracias y buenas noches in Tejas! 🙂
You got some great alligator pics, Mélanie. We had a 9 ft one in the little lake at the bottom of our back garden, a couple of years ago. 🙂
OMG, a gator in your back yard! 😀 btw, during our 5 years spent in Houston, TX we did see gators in the bayous of Clear Lake(NASA area) where we lived…
Yes, our son helped to catch it, and the gator man took it away. Our neighbors were worried, because it was on the back lawn, and their small grandchildren were coming to stay with them. 😯 http://blogs.24.com/anotherdayinparadise/2011/11/14/theres-a-gator-in-my-garden-weekend-excitement-in-florida/
thanx! yep, very impressive and scary!
OK. True confessions. I have no desire even to visit the Everglades.
you certainly know the famous Latin saying:”De gustibus et coloribus, non est disputandum!” – tastes and colors are not to be discussed or there’s no arguing about tastes and colors… 🙂
Cro … cro … crodilement peuplé que ces lieux Mélanie! De bien magnifiques photos! Bonne poursuite de ce lundi!
eh oui, Colette: ça mord et ça croque! 🙂
Everglades, il regno degli alligatori. Veramente stupende sono le immagini di questo terribile e temibile rettile. Una doppia sequenza molto interessante.
si, Everglades è la loro patria… 🙂 ho visto anche crocs in Egitto e Costa Rica, ma questi mi hanno impressionata di più… btw, sei mai stato in America e/o in Florida?…
No. Fuori dall’Europa non sono mai andato.
O.K. e in Francia? 🙂
Molti anni fa in Provenza. Però è un ricordo sbiadito.
amo Provenza, suoi campi di lavanda e suoi frutteti di ulivi – sulle orme di Van Gogh… 🙂
https://myvirtualplayground.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/lart-cest-lhomme-ajoute-a-la-nature-vincent-van-gogh/
Van Gogh è il mio pittore preferito!
Great pics again Melanie. Plenty of handbags and shoes in the making there. 🙂
🙂 Thanx, Sir! Guess what: you’re thinkin’ what I was thinkin’ about all those “miniature dinosaurs”… 🙂
Yep, they’d look good as handbags? A man was dragged out of his boat in the Northern Territory the other day. He was fishing with his wife, son and daughter in law, when a 4.7 metre crocodile leapt up and dragged him under. The police shot the crocodile yesterday and found human remains inside.
I don’t have any clothes or shoes made of animal skin… all our TV networks have mentioned that terrible accident.
Each to our own on the animal skin debate. Yes it was a shock for the man’s family I imagine. There are plenty of warning signs telling people to be aware of the crocodiles.
I’m sure there are signs, but some people simply ignore them… another example of not giving a damn on warning signs: France has the vastest skiing slopes in the world situated in the French Alps… every winter there are huge avalanches and visible signs everywhere, but certain nonchalant skiers take the risk to go off-slopes and they never come back…
It certainly pays to read the signs but a lot of people don’t think anything will happen to them.
yes, you’re right! their attitude is unconscious and what has always shocked me: some of them are irresponsible parents and they drag their kids with them!
I visited the crocodile farm in Darwin, in The Northern Territory and saw a man holding his toddler over the safety rail, to see the 5 metre crocodile better. Those things can leap straight up more than their own body length.
conclusion: Q.E.D. = quod erat demonstrandum = (the very thing) which has been demonstrated…
True.
Your photos brought back memories of my years living in Florida. The Everglades is a very interesting area to visit.
Hi Karen! have you visited this awesome “spot”?… 🙂
Yes, my husband and I went on one of the air boats for a very interesting ride through the Everglades.
O.K. thanx! same here and sooo cool! 🙂
Quand j’étais enfant, un jour, on disait qu’on a trouvé des alligators dans les égouts de New York. Certains jours plus tard encore, le courant là aussi tombait en panne – mais pas à cause des alligators! 🙂
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/alligators/a/alligator_ny.htm
eh, oui il y a des légendes urbaines sur tous les méridiens, donc aux USA, aussi… 🙂
btw:”see you later, alligator… after awhile, crocodile!”(Bill Halley) 🙂
I read in Wikipedia that “Everglades” was formed from “River Glades” in the 19th century.
Interesting: in the English->French dictionary of pons.eu there is no translation for “glades”.
In the English->German version it results in “Lichtung”(la clairière).
Cheers, Michel 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades
merci, Michel… oui, je sais: Everglades = (les) clairières éternelles/vivaces/perpetuelles… 🙂
Oh les jolies petites «bébêtes»!… Des mâchoires comme des hachoirs à viande… Une queue fouettante pour donner des coups d’assommoir… Un blindage de char d’assaut… Un cerveau gros comme une noisette(?), peut être un peu plus… Des animaux délirants, et dérivants du Secondaire, juste pour vous faire passer le goût… du bain… Dans la Baie du Mont Saint Michel, pas loin de chez moi, il y a une ferme où ils s’entassent, en attendant, si les barrières se rompent, de jouer les Godzilla normands… Pourquoi nous fascinent-ils? C’est si bon d’avoir peur un «pt’it cou»! Tous les reptiles à venin, les araignées mortelles, les chauves-souris suceuses de sang, les scolopendres rampants… Tous ces êtres inspirateurs de gargouilles, acteurs de nos cauchemars, inspirateurs de nos angoisses ont l’esthétique du Mal, compagnons de sorciers et sorcières, pièges et chausses-trappes du Malin… Doux frisson de la peur, quand nous nous sentons protégés… Ils me rappellent les armes suspendues aux panoplies des châteaux «Donjons et Dragons»… Beau reportage. Sont-ce des patelles qui colonisent le tronc de palétuviers… Des arbres à vérrues… On est dans l’étrange…
Bonne journée, Mélanie! Amitiés, Hervé.
pour moi, ces “bestioles”(LOL!) sont des mini-dinosaures… 🙂 on en mange, aussi, il semble qu’ils ont goût de… volailles, mais je n’ai pas eu la curiosité de le vérifier concrètement! 🙂 aucune idée pour les patelles des “walking trees” et les arbres à “verrues” sont vraiment bizarres…
merci d’avoir visité the Everglades, bon appétit et à+! 🙂
Great pictures, Melanie!
kalimera & sas ef̱charistó̱, Kate! 🙂
Very interesting series, Melanie! Thank you! Have a great day! 🙂