I am a Japanese female who came to the U.S. for the research opportunity as a scientist.
In my free time, I go hiking, backpacking, XC skiing. I love to be in the deep wilderness. I write my adventures from all over the world and Introduce the beauty of nature, from a viewpoint of Japanese.
日本出身の女性研究者かつハイカー。
休日はハイキング、バックパッキング、クロスカントリスキーなどで多忙。
日本人の視点から見た世界中の自然の美しさを、読者が旅をしているような感覚で読んで頂ければと思い、このブログを作成。
2019-04-26
Florida Biscayne National Park Day1
Biscayne National Park is a relatively new National Park in south of Miami, Florida. It was established in 1980. So this park is "young" among American National Parks.
When we decided to go to Florida for Christmas, I wanted to go to both Everglades and Bicayne, because both look unique and interesting.
Biscayne has keys, which is made of coral reef.
Yes, Biscayne's feature is coral reef.
I had never heard of keys (except for meaning as door keys) or coral reef. It was very interesting to me.
On the first day at Biscayne, we joined Ranger talk and I learned about keys and coral reef in the area.
Brain Coral Fossil
Florida keys are very long: from north where Biscayne National Park is located to all the south to Key West. Keys are the exposed coral reef due to a drop of sea level.
The picture in the left is brain coral fossil. Wow.
I know that people like to go to Key West, because it is southernmost point in the Florida. However, I didn't know what the key meant. I was glad that I attended the ranger talk.
Then in the afternoon, we joined the snorkeling tour to see coral reef in the sea. It was a great timing after learning about coral reef. The tour is held regularly by Biscayne National Park Institute. This is a non-profit organization and offers boat tour/snorkel tour in Biscayne National Park. Because it is NPO, the price is not expensive. Also the guys are very informative.
The boat took us in the middle of nowhere of the keys and we jumped into the sea.
In the ocean, there are millions of kind of coral are there! So many colors are living there. Pink, red, green, yellow, orange, blue, brown, grey, black, purple...it is more colors than I can describe with words. Then, there are also colorful fish eating coral and resting in the coral.
I had never imagined that there would be such colorful world under the sea. I didn't have a water camera at this trip, so I don't have pictures to post. Even if I had possessed it, it would have been hard to capture the undersea coral world. The Florida coral world is amazing.
It is already great to see the Florida ocean, but it was really nice to go in the sea and see the massive coral.
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