We traveled to Flamingo Monday morning. Flamingo is a ghost town on the southern most tip of mainland Florida and at the tip of Everglades National Park. The total campground hosts over 200 sites for tents and RV's, but only 40 have electric. The sites are large leaving lots of room between campers. Isolation would be the best one word description of Flamingo. At the entrance to the Park is a visitor center for the park and another for Flamingo by the campground which a quarter mile from the small marina. At this juncture, there is saltwater to the east and freshwater to the east. The Buttonwood Channel is brackish. The combination of salt and fresh waters make it possible for alligators and crocodiles to live in the same are - the only place on earth.
Crocs are grey, not black, and their teeth all she even when the long thin snout is closed. We understand they are more aggressive also. I would guess that's accurate. We saw a small crocodile on shore when we took the dory for a channel ride. In order to get good pictures, we passed the croc three times. On the third pass, the croc had his mouth wide open - a bit annoyed.
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