Our visit to the Everglades National Park (also known as mosquito central) was reduced to a visit to the Everglades Alligator Farm (not the National Park) and a short drive into the National Park.

The alligator farm is not a zoo, but a working farm where they raise alligators for the meat, and cash in on tourists by having a few shows and air boat rides.

I think this place could be very touristy in high season, but it felt very low key, because there were only few people.

In the National Park we stopped at the visitor center before taking the road down towards Flamingo. We didn’t actually go all the way to Flamingo, but stopped at the Mahogany Hammock boardwalk to take a small walk over the swamps (and ditch the mosquitoes), before heading back out of the park.