If you want to see alligators in their natural environment, Myakka is the place to be. There's actually a section in the park called "the hole" where hundreds of them congregate. You have to get a permit to hike there and it's limited to 30 people a day. We were warned that the water level was high that day meaning we probably wouldn't see too many alligators, so we opted not to do that hike. Instead we stopped along a bridge and watched about six alligators from there.
There were two men fishing from the bridge. The alligators were coming over and laying in the water directly under us in the hopes of catching a fish as the men pulled them in. One actually came very close to being successful, and all of us jumped when the alligator snapped his jaws in the attempt.
We hiked the nature trail, which runs alongside the river where we just saw the alligators!
That made me a bit nervous, but we didn't run into any along the way.
Later we drove deeper into the park to the bird walk boardwalk which takes you out to a place over the marshes to watch different species of bird- eagles, vultures and more.
Couldn't help but spend a few minutes under these beautiful trees to practice flips.
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