many smaller half grown alligators. Joe poled the largest one with a pole and made him his and quiet. The his was that of escaping steam followed by grunt. He fed two with rather large sections of fish. They are lazy eaters holding the fish a while in the mouth, then another meal and so on at once than 6 times when the food is small meal while. If they were chased a man to pieces it must have been slow job not much better than done by turtles. Took 4 crop shots, the first of which is out of focus. We then visited the Opa-Locka Fruit Farm a most interesting place to see tropical fruits and tropical plants. Many Royal Palms were but some were particularly large. Had some Date Palms. Took a number of pictures here. We then entered the canal portion for the Ever- glades. It is dug through the Miami oolite and the material piled up on each side, the partly crushed is now being used in Miami for road making. About four feet of the oolite can be seen above the water though not one streak of chalk but only black soil. Saw no peat. In places the oolite is decidedly over bedded