We escaped one of the coldest and snowiest Pennsylvania winters on record and enjoyed some warm sunshine in Florida this February.
After joining the Road Scholar group on a bike trek through the Everglades, we spent our last morning in Florida in a canoe on the beautiful Peace River near Naples. We paddled under towering cypress trees covered with Spanish moss. We saw no other people on our trip, but we were not alone. Great Blue Herons flew alongside our canoe, and great egrets and white ibises fished on the banks. As the sun came up and warmed up the river, the turtles started sunning themselves on logs. And we paddled by quite a few alligators sunning themselves on the banks or gliding through the river.
To see more from our Florida trip, click here.