Dry Tortugas National Park Report

Celebrating a Century: Americas National Parks
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
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