After the best night of the trip we leave the Pelican Motel with regrets that we had not stayed longer. It is a definite for us next time through. I want to be clear it is a no frills place. The cottages have a full kitchen but you need to freeze your own ice and stock your own refrigerator. Buy a bag from the store and save some aggravation. You are paying for the environment and atmosphere.

As for me, I LOVED IT!

From here the plan was to spend 1 night in Miami and leave the evening of the next day. So with about 60 miles to cover and all day to do it, what to do?

That crocodile sign at the Pelican Motel about the crocs had me thinking, FLORIDA, there are crocs all over. Miss Lynn vetoed a nature walk out into the everglades so I compromised and settled for a gator farm.

The Everglades Alligator Farm in Homestead is where we headed.
( https://everglades.com/ )
It is a great little stop for the road weary traveler and will give you a unique look at creatures you would otherwise stay far away. It has shows, displays, rearing tanks and you will walk away with more knowledge of crocs and gators than you ever imagined you would have. You can take an airboat ride out into the everglades where they do some real fun maneuvers out in the swamp grass. It is a lot of fun but be forewarned you will get wet. I would have had some video it but the camera got wet and it completely fritzes the clip it was shooting.

We spent 2 or 3 hours here and then it was off to see something completely different.
The Coral Castle.

The airboat ride takes you into the wild.

Nice shot of the Everglades

A gator rearing tank These are 2 years olds.

The Coral Castle
( https://coralcastle.com/ )
Is quite an interesting place . Built between 1923 and 1951 by one man, Edward Leedskalnin. To look at him you would not believe this small 100 pound man could lift and manipulate stones that weighed many tons. When asked how he would just answer It is easy if you know how. He knew how. The location of this marvelous structure was originally different from where it is now. He moved it in 1936 to its present location and continued to work on it until his death in 1951. It is currently owned by a corporation that allows tours and they really hype the mystery of its construction and claim Old Edward used reverse magnetism to lift the stones. In fact he had skills with chains and pulleys that made it easy for even a 100 pound man to do it.

In spite of all the nonsensical hype about how it was made it is well worth the stop,

The man himself Edward leedskilnin

However he did it, pulleys and common sense or reverse magnetism, you must agree it is a feat of impressive determination to be done by a single man.

If you get a chance check it out.

From there we headed off to the hotel in Miami for a good nights rest.

One look at his tools and you know how he did it.