Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

Eight alligators seen during the day. One female with one young nearby, though they said she had
had twenty, near the Visitor Center. Several from the airboat. Then one walking along a berm.
Red slider turtles. One big snapping turtle. One small muskrat
Air boat trip. Across the everglades. Stopped at "tree heads," clumps of a few trees or willows.
Otherwise the vegetation is floating, though some things grow in the floating debris and various
animals can walk on it.
The wind blew strong from the east for several days, unusual, they said, though it calmed for
Sunday. Don Marietta's plate glass window was covered with a film of dust, though high in a
condominium. This dust is blown across the Atlantic from the Sahel, desert in Western end of
Sahara, in Mauritania.
end 1996.