Part of the land that Briggs Boardwalk winds through is a scrub habitat. This habitat’s ground is made up of…
We have been noticing 7 baby gators who were born to Smiley, our resident gator, on the big pond at…
In the last two weeks, we’ve seen a bunch of nifty things at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida’s Briggs Boardwalk [see end of story for directions and visitor tips]. Here are some of those nifty things we have seen:
A lot’s been happening at the walk this season. The walk has had to survive a fire, a massive hurricane, and the inevitable wearing down of a “mature” boardwalk.
It’s late June and the Briggs Boardwalk is again ablaze with numerous flowers from native perennial plants. Here…
The pictures below show a pair of otters right on Briggs Boardwalk on April 18, 2016…
When you visit Briggs Boardwalk, you might see a number of mammals. Some past actors…
We see and sometimes hear a number of reptiles at Briggs. One reptile that gets everyone’s attention is Smiley — our name for our resident American alligator. Smiley obligingly uses the edge of the pond in front of the viewing platform as a…