Laura and I (Sea Rim State Park)

So why is this park such an important place for conservation?

Like I mentioned before, it is a nursery.

A lot of fish and sharks and rays and skates, their young will be born in our marsh system, in our tidal ecosystems.

So we are...

To many's dismay, you can find baby bull sharks in our estuaries.

Whoa.

Yeah.

You can find baby bulls in our estuaries.

You can go find young sheep's heads, young reds in our estuaries and our marshes as well.

But it's also like it's a great place to find alligators and where alligators are very still wild, where they're not really interacting with a lot of humans.

Because you can go into town, you can find alligators.

I've seen alligators like on this just hanging out like in our intercoastal canal ways.

They're just chilling, but they're near people.

So they're used to all the noise.

These guys are not.

uh, so much use to our noise.

It's also where protect, we have five miles of protected beach, uh, beach, uh, that is directly onto the coast.

So that's a habitat for, you know, crabs, birds, a lot of our, we have a lot of nesting birds out here, uh, especially during the spring and early summer when we have our migratory birds counting down here, we are a birding hotspot.

Uh, We get, you know, roseate spoonbills.

We get royal terns.

We get almost, I think, almost all the types of herons and egrets that you'll find in the U.S. you can find here, including the reddish egret and the tricolor egret.

Tricolor heron, sorry.

I don't want to say things wrong.

But we are...

We're just a great place to see wildlife in the wild while still being close enough to the city.

So why is this park such an important place for conservation?

Like I mentioned before, it is a nursery.

A lot of fish and sharks and rays and skates, their young will be born in our marsh system, in our tidal ecosystems.

So we are...

To many's dismay, you can find baby bull sharks in our estuaries.

Whoa.

Yeah.

You can find baby bulls in our estuaries.

You can go find young sheep's heads, young reds in our estuaries and our marshes as well.

But it's also like it's a great place to find alligators and where alligators are very still wild, where they're not really interacting with a lot of humans.

Because you can go into town, you can find alligators.

I've seen alligators like on this just hanging out like in our intercoastal canal ways.

They're just chilling, but they're near people.

So they're used to all the noise.

These guys are not.

uh, so much use to our noise.

It's also where protect, we have five miles of protected beach, uh, beach, uh, that is directly onto the coast.

So that's a habitat for, you know, crabs, birds, a lot of our, we have a lot of nesting birds out here, uh, especially during the spring and early summer when we have our migratory birds counting down here, we are a birding hotspot.

Uh, We get, you know, roseate spoonbills.

We get royal terns.

We get almost, I think, almost all the types of herons and egrets that you'll find in the U.S. you can find here, including the reddish egret and the tricolor egret.

Tricolor heron, sorry.

I don't want to say things wrong.

But we are...

We're just a great place to see wildlife in the wild while still being close enough to the city.