The Amazing Flamingo Gardens

Flamingo Gardens looks like they're open and I got handicapped parking. Let's go see some flamingos. Let's go see how friendly these folks are. Hopefully they're more friendly than the How are you doing? Wonderful. Howdy. Is there a fee? Yes sir. We have it's $24 for each adult. You have a military discount? We do sir. We have a 20% discount. Excellent. Thank you for your service. We'll get you in here. All right let's get your military discount. That comes to $19.20. All right and go ahead and this is a map for you. Give me one minute. I'm still with a customer. Hold on. All righty. This is a copy of your receipt and this is your map. Calvin can you open the door for this young man? All right. I've been riding this thing for 20 years. I can get a door. Oh well he's got you. He got you. All right. Thank you. Enjoy. Thank you sir. Hi. I'm wonderful. How about yourself? Partying too much over the weekend? Sometimes it just gets out of hand. Howdy bird. Barbecue house. So we'll go see an animal. It's funny. Animal exhibits and barbecue house are in What a treat. For you Tom. A couple of little, three little, four little. Even the gators freak out when the dude on the scooter comes by. There's nothing to hurt right there. He's too busy swimming laps. The North American river otter. That's a crazy looking bird up there. So there's one of the albino peacocks. Apparently there's several. So this was I guess the the house for the people that created this. That is cool right up there. Is there? Yeah. Are there? I think there's maybe an oak tree in here. I don't know. Yep. There it is right there. That's what's left of it. So this is where you get married. In front of this great big huge thing. That is just phenomenal. And then there's orchids growing all over it. I wonder if the oak tree is still alive up there. Wow that's just so so intricate. It looks like as the tree grew it pulled that out of the ground maybe. I don't know. Huh. Moving right along. that way or do we go that way? How about we consult a map. Okay looks like that'll take us down to a and it wasn't that peacock. What the heck is that? Howdy. How are you? I'm John. You work here? No. Okay you're on private property. Oh I didn't. What did you do? Come through that back gate? No I paid to come in. Oh okay. I just never seen anybody out here. Okay. You don't see handicapped people out here? No I do. I just never seen Sedley's and stuff out here. We got people coming in back gates and gates are open. Who are you? Zipping around in your little green truck. Cycads. Oldest living plants on earth. There's a whole bunch of stuff over there. Looks like a desert cactus garden. Those are interesting. Cycads of Australia. So this is a collection of cycads. Okay I get it. I thought it was just that back there but it's a whole collection. Interesting. Cycads of China and the Caribbean. I thought they were palms but they're not. Cycads of the world. Looks like a jobby plant right there. A little butterfly garden. There's a trail in there. A little bit of practice. Sorry. A little bit of practice. Oh yeah yeah there you go. Are you shooting for any particular purpose? I have a YouTube channel. Oh okay. I travel around in my RV and document public campgrounds and occasionally I'll do excursion. I have a following of disabled people that don't get out, can't get out. So I've I got an Insta360 camera going so you can actually do a virtual reality on the ride. Interesting. Very good. Well enjoy. Where are you from originally? Texas. Oh okay. That's why I talk like this. Wow I guess so. It's eight generations of Texas draw. All right. You just got to confuse people. That's all you're doing is just confusing us all. Oh yeah I can get it. I appreciate the offer though. Oh now that is cool. This trail was put up to or installed to highlight native species. Whoa y'all got a duck. You don't expect seven feet tall, eight feet tall people. We're in Florida so even your local Sasquatch is not that tall. Maybe not. We'll keep going. See a bridge. Wetlands. Walkway.