Deanna and I were in the Everglades again, working on the videotaping of wildlife and your's truly for a new video project we hope to produce in the coming year. I taped the wildlife and the vast Everglades panoramas with my big Betacam while Deanna taped closeups of plants and taped me walking sketching and talking to you the viewers about the wonderful things we were seeing. I don't know why, but the alligators and crocodiles seemed bigger this trip. I was able to get some great footage of a large Crocodile in Flamingo Florida, down at the very bottom of the state and deep in the Everglades National Park. We both took nice sequences of a green heron walking on a log over the water.

South of the Everglades in the Florida Keys we saw our first of what turned out to be many large green Iguanas living wild in the mangraove. Green Iguanas are native to Central America. They have been introduced to South Florida. Some of them were pets that have been set free. The Iguanas adapt easily to the wild and thrive in the mangroves. I photographed one iguana that was five feet long! And on our boatrides in the canal we saw other 4, 3, and 2 feet long.

The video work in the Everglades and the iguanas in the keys
made this trip one our most wonderfilled trips South.