Florida - Silver River - cont'd

We enjoyed the scenery on the river, basically a cypress swamp. And here are more animal sightings.

Alligators

LOTS of turtlesand Rhesus monkeys

There are several theories as to their origin, but the prevalent one seems to be that there was a jungle cruise boat ride at the Silver Springs theme park in the 1930's and the monkeys were placed on an island in the river as part of the scenery. And they simply swam off and disappeared into the forest. We saw plenty of evidence of their swimming ability as many of the young ones played around in the trees and belly-flopped into the water while this matriarch looked on.