Ding Darling
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Ding Darling was another fun experience. Our tour guide was very well educated on the plants and animals that inhabit Southwest Florida. She was able to answer EVERY question that I or anyone else on the tour had and kept us all entertained. I had never been to a refuge center before, but was glad to hear that, acre wise, Florida is home to more refuge land than anywhere else in the country, and the United States is home to more refuge land than anywhere else in the world. Our guide did tell us that they have to keep an orange mesh fence around the site during tourist season because photographers were comming in and disturbing the wildlife in order to get pictures! This was shocking to me. It doesn't make much sense to kill the wildlife while you are trying to support preserving it. My favorite part of the tour was the location where the water gets pumped through from one side of the road to the other. Our guide told us that by doing that it keeps the mosquito population down. That sandbar that is created by the pumping of waterinterferes with the breeding grounds for mosquitos and where they lay their eggs. It is the most effective way to keep the population down as well as the least expensive. I thought that was very interesting. Also, being from Minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes and 10,000,000 misquitos I was shocked to hear that Florida has more! In fact, there are more types of mosquitos in Florida than anywhere else in the country! Our guide also told us that a couple years ago there was a flamingo spotted in Sanibel. I guess it decided it liked the other coeast better because it never returned.
Ding Darling was another fun experience. Our tour guide was very well educated on the plants and animals that inhabit Southwest Florida. She was able to answer EVERY question that I or anyone else on the tour had and kept us all entertained. I had never been to a refuge center before, but was glad to hear that, acre wise, Florida is home to more refuge land than anywhere else in the country, and the United States is home to more refuge land than anywhere else in the world. Our guide did tell us that they have to keep an orange mesh fence around the site during tourist season because photographers were comming in and disturbing the wildlife in order to get pictures! This was shocking to me. It doesn't make much sense to kill the wildlife while you are trying to support preserving it. My favorite part of the tour was the location where the water gets pumped through from one side of the road to the other. Our guide told us that by doing that it keeps the mosquito population down. That sandbar that is created by the pumping of waterinterferes with the breeding grounds for mosquitos and where they lay their eggs. It is the most effective way to keep the population down as well as the least expensive. I thought that was very interesting. Also, being from Minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes and 10,000,000 misquitos I was shocked to hear that Florida has more! In fact, there are more types of mosquitos in Florida than anywhere else in the country! Our guide also told us that a couple years ago there was a flamingo spotted in Sanibel. I guess it decided it liked the other coeast better because it never returned.
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