Dry Tortugas National Park Report
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Two wonderful days in Dry Tortugas National Park
Today I'm traveling to Dry Tortugas National Park which is located in Florida. The place where I will be staying is a campground in Garden Key which is the same island as Fort Jefferson. My flight leaves in a couple of hours so I should start packing up my stuff and leave. The park called me before I left the house. The people who were on the phone told me that I couldn't take a normal commercial plane I had to either take a seaplane or a ferry that the National Park provides. I could also use a charter or a personal boat, but I would have to use a permit. I asked the people on the phone how long does the seaplane take to get to the National …show more content…
park they said it would take about 40 minutes one way from key west to Fort Jefferson. I was deciding which one I should take to get to Fort Jefferson. Finally I chose one, I chose the seaplane because I didn't want to be on a ferry boat for two hours. After I got to the place where the seaplane would pick me up at a beautiful secluded beach in Florida off the cost of garden key. I was on the seaplane and I finally arrived to the beautiful Dry Tortugas National Park after a long and boring plane ride. When I arrived at the park I saw the beautiful camping grounds where I would being staying for 2 days. They told me that the Dry Tortugas National Park was established to protect the island and marine ecosystems of the Dry Tortugas. Then, the people who worked there showed me where I would be staying for 2 days. After they should me I got settled in and went exploring of the island. Later that warm, cool ,summer July day I came back from my exploration and got ready for bed.
The morning I woke up for my second day I was extremely ecstatic to be here. While I was eating breakfast I was wondering what to do. I had no clue what to do, There was this gentleman who was sitting right across at the table in the restaurant with his family on a vacation. I asked him what would be a good activity he told me that his family loved to go snorkeling in a secluded area near Fort Jefferson and the Forts moat wall but he said we cannot swim in the moat itself. I thanked him and his family and wished them a lovely and wonderful day.
The next morning I got up early but it was so cold that I went back into my tent to get a warm ,fuzzy ,cozy sweatshirt.
It was about five thirty when i got up. I wanted to go for a hike around the National park so I did. When i got back the time was about about 7:30 in the morning. When I was on my hike around the park I saw many signs telling me about endangered animals, some of the signs I read were about the loggerhead sea turtle, and the leather back sea turtle. The signs told me how the loggerhead sea turtle and the leather back sea turtle eggs are about the size and shape of a ping pong ball. This huge sign also told me that after the sea turtles egg hatch biologists excavate nest and record the number of unmatched and hatched eggs, and also live and dead turtles. So when I got back it was time for breakfast so i went and got breakfast i wanted to be done with it faster so I could go get started with another wonderful day. I was finished with my breakfast around nine thirty. I went back to my tent after breakfast and get ready to go snorkeling. The people who worked there told me that in some designated areas to go snorkeling around Fort Jefferson you see massive coral heads and reef life and some examples of reef life that I heard about are the parrot fish, angelfish, and the moray
eels.
When I got back from snorkeling it was about eleven thirty and my seaplane flight left at one thirty. So by the time I got back I had to get ready and packed up to leave so I did. By the time was was all packed up with all my stuff I was ready to leave from my beautiful trip U took. I will have to come back another time I said to myself. So i left to catch the seaplane before it left. I got on the plane and I left the beautiful Dry Tortugas National Park.
Two wonderful days in Dry Tortugas National Park
Today I'm traveling to Dry Tortugas National Park which is located in Florida. The place where I will be staying is a campground in Garden Key which is the same island as Fort Jefferson. My flight leaves in a couple of hours so I should start packing up my stuff and leave. The park called me before I left the house. The people who were on the phone told me that I couldn't take a normal commercial plane I had to either take a seaplane or a ferry that the National Park provides. I could also use a charter or a personal boat, but I would have to use a permit. I asked the people on the phone how long does the seaplane take to get to the National …show more content…
park they said it would take about 40 minutes one way from key west to Fort Jefferson. I was deciding which one I should take to get to Fort Jefferson. Finally I chose one, I chose the seaplane because I didn't want to be on a ferry boat for two hours. After I got to the place where the seaplane would pick me up at a beautiful secluded beach in Florida off the cost of garden key. I was on the seaplane and I finally arrived to the beautiful Dry Tortugas National Park after a long and boring plane ride. When I arrived at the park I saw the beautiful camping grounds where I would being staying for 2 days. They told me that the Dry Tortugas National Park was established to protect the island and marine ecosystems of the Dry Tortugas. Then, the people who worked there showed me where I would be staying for 2 days. After they should me I got settled in and went exploring of the island. Later that warm, cool ,summer July day I came back from my exploration and got ready for bed.
The morning I woke up for my second day I was extremely ecstatic to be here. While I was eating breakfast I was wondering what to do. I had no clue what to do, There was this gentleman who was sitting right across at the table in the restaurant with his family on a vacation. I asked him what would be a good activity he told me that his family loved to go snorkeling in a secluded area near Fort Jefferson and the Forts moat wall but he said we cannot swim in the moat itself. I thanked him and his family and wished them a lovely and wonderful day.
The next morning I got up early but it was so cold that I went back into my tent to get a warm ,fuzzy ,cozy sweatshirt.
It was about five thirty when i got up. I wanted to go for a hike around the National park so I did. When i got back the time was about about 7:30 in the morning. When I was on my hike around the park I saw many signs telling me about endangered animals, some of the signs I read were about the loggerhead sea turtle, and the leather back sea turtle. The signs told me how the loggerhead sea turtle and the leather back sea turtle eggs are about the size and shape of a ping pong ball. This huge sign also told me that after the sea turtles egg hatch biologists excavate nest and record the number of unmatched and hatched eggs, and also live and dead turtles. So when I got back it was time for breakfast so i went and got breakfast i wanted to be done with it faster so I could go get started with another wonderful day. I was finished with my breakfast around nine thirty. I went back to my tent after breakfast and get ready to go snorkeling. The people who worked there told me that in some designated areas to go snorkeling around Fort Jefferson you see massive coral heads and reef life and some examples of reef life that I heard about are the parrot fish, angelfish, and the moray
eels.
When I got back from snorkeling it was about eleven thirty and my seaplane flight left at one thirty. So by the time I got back I had to get ready and packed up to leave so I did. By the time was was all packed up with all my stuff I was ready to leave from my beautiful trip U took. I will have to come back another time I said to myself. So i left to catch the seaplane before it left. I got on the plane and I left the beautiful Dry Tortugas National Park.