Best place to photograph wildlife around Ft Lauderdale: Looking for advice please from residents of Ft Lauderdale/North Miami area with local knowledge. Doing a cruise out of Port...

davids999 Loc: Edinburgh, UK

Looking for advice please from residents of Ft Lauderdale/North Miami area with local knowledge. Doing a cruise out of Port Everglades in March. I will have a week or so before and again afterwards. My question is can anyone suggest locations where I would have a good chance to get shots of BIF and alligators?

Thanks in advance.

David

Birdguide Loc: Ormond Beach, FL

davids999 wrote:

Looking for advice please from residents of Ft Lauderdale/North Miami area with local knowledge. Doing a cruise out of Port Everglades in March. I will have a week or so before and again afterwards. My question is can anyone suggest locations where I would have a good chance to get shots of BIF and alligators?

Thanks in advance.

David

I am sending you a PM with suggestions.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

davids999 wrote:

Looking for advice please from residents of Ft Lauderdale/North Miami area with local knowledge. Doing a cruise out of Port Everglades in March. I will have a week or so before and again afterwards. My question is can anyone suggest locations where I would have a good chance to get shots of BIF and alligators?

Thanks in advance.

David

Due west of Fort Lauderdale is the everglades... Really just about 10 miles out of town... That and the beach, unless you can find a golf course that you can sneak around on...

:lol: :lol:

Makaipi Loc: Lexington, South Carolina

Yes, go to any golf course west of town as suggested by Blurryeyed. For some reason gators like golf courses. Maybe their handicap is better. If you are looking for them in the months of May to about July, that's mating season and they get grumpy and like to move a lot looking for love in all the wrong places.:-)

davids999 Loc: Edinburgh, UK

Thanks Birdguide

Perfect. Gives me places to start. I will have to leave wife in mall or at the pool while I go off with camera so it saves me wasting time driving around.

Kind regards

david

davids999 Loc: Edinburgh, UK

Thanks Blurryeyed

I usually stay in the Dania area but was thinking of staying over towards the everglades to save a bit of time.

Kinds regards

david

crimesc324 Loc: West Palm Beach, Florida

Shark Valley in the Everglades National Park off Tamiami Trail has tons of gators. Wakodahatchee and Green Cay parks in Boynton Beach has nesting birds of all kinds this time of year.

davids999 Loc: Edinburgh, UK

Thanks Makaipi

I note what both you and Blurryeyed said about golf courses. I also note what you say about alligator's looking for love. I'm up for most things when away on holiday but I'll try not to become involved in that! :-D

davids999 Loc: Edinburgh, UK

Thanks crimesc324

Perfect, thanks for responding.

Regards

david

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

davids999 wrote:

Thanks Makaipi

I note what both you and Blurryeyed said about golf courses. I also note what you say about alligator's looking for love. I'm up for most things when away on holiday but I'll try not to become involved in that! :-D

I was thinking of birds when I suggested golf courses, but you will find gators there as well, but for some reason golf courses attract an unusually high number and variety of birds, have lived on a few golf courses and have always been amazed by the number of cranes, eagles, hawks.... etc. There always seems to be an abundance of wild life sharing the golf course with the golfers.

SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

First, be prepared for some congested driving conditions in the Ft. Lauderdale area; especially on I-95.

Second, check out some of these tours available in the Ft. Lauderdale/Miami area:

http://www.evergladestours.org/?event=offer.list&p=9&gclid=CIv77POm4LQCFQf0nAodnWoAOQ

If you like butterflies, check this out:
http://www.butterflyworld.com/

Here are more options for you:
http://www.sunny.org/ways-to-play/

http://maps.google.com/maps?um=1&hl=en&client=opera&channel=suggest&biw=1243&bih=931&ie=UTF-8&q=animal+displays+near+ft+lauderdale&fb=1&gl=us&hq=animal+displays&hnear=0x88d9012720facaf5:0x7602be7540bf8ebe,Fort+Lauderdale,+FL&sa=X&ei=6QTwUNCpA4fn0gHphoHwCg&ved=0CKIBELYD

http://miami.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=miami&cdn=citiestowns&tm=32&f=10&su=p284.13.342.ip_p554.23.342.ip_&tt=3&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.broward.org/Parks/SecretWoodsNatureCenter/Pages/Default.aspx

Have fun! At least it will be much warmer than my November trip to the Troon/Glasgow area of Scotland many years ago.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

davids999 wrote:

Looking for advice please from residents of Ft Lauderdale/North Miami area with local knowledge. Doing a cruise out of Port Everglades in March. I will have a week or so before and again afterwards. My question is can anyone suggest locations where I would have a good chance to get shots of BIF and alligators?

Thanks in advance.

David

Shame on me, but my first thought was - on the beach. :oops:

PhotoGator Loc: Florida

davids999 wrote:

Looking for advice please from residents of Ft Lauderdale/North Miami area with local knowledge. Doing a cruise out of Port Everglades in March. I will have a week or so before and again afterwards. My question is can anyone suggest locations where I would have a good chance to get shots of BIF and alligators?

Thanks in advance.

David

Everglades National Park
http://www.nps.gov/ever/index.htm

South Florida Camera Club
http://southfloridacameraclub.com/

South Florida Camera Club - Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/southfloridacameraclub/

PhotoGator Loc: Florida

Birdguide wrote:

davids999 wrote:

Looking for advice please from residents of Ft Lauderdale/North Miami area with local knowledge. Doing a cruise out of Port Everglades in March. I will have a week or so before and again afterwards. My question is can anyone suggest locations where I would have a good chance to get shots of BIF and alligators?

Thanks in advance.

David

I am sending you a PM with suggestions.

Why couldn't you posted it for everyone to see it and learn too?

SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

Too bad you won't be in Florida next week. You could join in the big python snake hunt:

http://news.yahoo.com/florida-python-hunting-contest-draws-hundreds-233849996.html

"ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A python hunting competition starting on Saturday is drawing hundreds of amateurs armed with clubs, machetes and guns to the Florida Everglades, where captured Burmese pythons have exceeded the length of minivans and weighed as much as grown men.

Python Challenge 2013, a month-long event sponsored by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, is open to hunters and non-hunters alike."