Let's go to the Babcock Ranch!
Megan's ready to look for some alligators, pigs and cattle. We spent one morning taking a tour of The Babcock Ranch, a 90,000 acre wildlife preserve. We all got loaded up onto a "cage bus" and drove around looking at wildlife. 
Here are our first visitors, wild pigs and piglets. You could see them from a far running to the bus because they knew they would get some corn to eat. They were adorable and the kids had lots of fun taking a ton of pictures of these pigs.
This cow didn't want the pigs to make pigs of themselves so he came to the bus for some corn too. At one point his head and neck were up the steps onto the bus. As he was making a pig of himself more cattle came running to the bus. I didn't know cows could run so fast, it was fun to see a dozen cows up close and personal.
They're back! At another stop along the trail, the piggies found us again. This time they brought some friends, in all we saw 3 big pigs, 2 medium pigs and 8 baby pigs. At one point along the trial we were stopped in front of the cougar cage and the pigs found us once again, but I noticed that the piglets stayed away from the cougar cage. There was no way they would have gotten hurt, but the mama pigs still kept her babies away from danger. 
One baby alligator up close and personal! This little guy was about 18 inches long and we got to touch him (then we all sanitized our hands) He was cute. It was hard to see any big alligators because a water plant grew like crazy over the summer covering most of the viewing spots. When they did spot a big gator I was unable to see it because I had Megan sleeping in my arms, a sick Crystal sleeping on my thigh and Morgan sitting next to me because she was scared of seeing a gator. The ranch was a great place to visit with kids hopefully we'll all go back someday.
Megan's ready to look for some alligators, pigs and cattle. We spent one morning taking a tour of The Babcock Ranch, a 90,000 acre wildlife preserve. We all got loaded up onto a "cage bus" and drove around looking at wildlife. 
Here are our first visitors, wild pigs and piglets. You could see them from a far running to the bus because they knew they would get some corn to eat. They were adorable and the kids had lots of fun taking a ton of pictures of these pigs.
This cow didn't want the pigs to make pigs of themselves so he came to the bus for some corn too. At one point his head and neck were up the steps onto the bus. As he was making a pig of himself more cattle came running to the bus. I didn't know cows could run so fast, it was fun to see a dozen cows up close and personal.
They're back! At another stop along the trail, the piggies found us again. This time they brought some friends, in all we saw 3 big pigs, 2 medium pigs and 8 baby pigs. At one point along the trial we were stopped in front of the cougar cage and the pigs found us once again, but I noticed that the piglets stayed away from the cougar cage. There was no way they would have gotten hurt, but the mama pigs still kept her babies away from danger. 
One baby alligator up close and personal! This little guy was about 18 inches long and we got to touch him (then we all sanitized our hands) He was cute. It was hard to see any big alligators because a water plant grew like crazy over the summer covering most of the viewing spots. When they did spot a big gator I was unable to see it because I had Megan sleeping in my arms, a sick Crystal sleeping on my thigh and Morgan sitting next to me because she was scared of seeing a gator. The ranch was a great place to visit with kids hopefully we'll all go back someday.
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Looks and sounds like you are having a great time with family. The pictures of the wild animals are great.
Happy New Year!!!
Love,
The Ringman's
Angie, Ben, Riley and Brenden
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