Jungle Island – February 26

Jungle Island is located on MacArthur Causeway, Miami, Florida near Key Biscayne, Florida…The best way for us to get there is riding on several expressways like Don Shula Expressway or Dolphin Expressway…We could take the trip up Route 1 but it would take a while to get to our destination…

We arrived at our destination without any traffic which is great cause once you get around the Miami Airport, the traffic is atrocious…The drive towards Downtown Miami is a beautiful sight..All the tall glass buildings…All highways and byways…Hotels everywhere…Businesses everywhere…Garages everywhere…Buildings are being erected even with the economy the way it is…

Follow the signs to Jungle Island on MacArthur Causeway…As you are following the road around to Jungle Island, you can see the Port of Miami…but no cruise ships were there…We found out the day before that there is a garage but the bottom garage area is big enough for our truck…Thank goodness…We pulled in to the garage and found the end parking space…Richard and I grabbed our camera bags and headed to the front window to buy our tickets…

 

Richard buys our tickets and on our way in through the gate, there is the shop which we stop at on the way out…The restaurant is located outside of the park entrance gate too…The lady is there to stamp our hands as we go in and we are off and running to anywhere in the park…At the front of the walkway are the macaws and I got my picture with 4 of them on my shoulders… Of course Richard got told no personal pictures with me and the macaws but he got one good picture…Along the pathway are about 20 macaws of a few different varieties… I got to talk to a few of them and get their pictures…The walk along the pathways and to the shows was fantastic…Their was the greenhouse, alligators, shows with snakes and an alligator & a crocodile, penquins and the kids park with kangaroos, goats, a llama and large turtles…Lots of different trees and flowers were all over the place…

One of the amazing trees in the South Florida area are Banyan Trees…These trees grow vines from their limbs and they entertwine with each other and become another limb…These banyan trees are something to see in person…It makes you say “WOW!”…

 

The guy to the right became my friend…I had lots of fun talking this guy…The African Grey would listen and he even let me pet his claws…In the cage were 2 other African Greys and they even came down from their perches to listen to  me talk to their buddy…I had a blast…

 

 

Along the Everglades Habitat path, you come upon turtles, fish and a Great Blue Heron who came out of the bushes to find his “lunch”…Richard got a really good picture of this Great Blue catching his meal…or you could come across someone who is just visiting the Everglades Habitat area….

Along the pathways are some beautifully placed flowing water falls…

Along our walks along all the pathways and talking pictures of anything and everything that we see, it wasn’t tough to take pictures of all the birds…In a caged area were some birds that looked like large doves, some sort of quail and a bird that we have no idea of what it is…

After being at Jungle Island all day, we stopped by the Gift Shop, took our pictures and bought our magnet…The weather was perfect, the company was great and time was fun…