Our first ten days at this park have been very busy ones. We had two days to get settled in and then we began to train for our winter jobs here.

Since we will be working with the inturpretive ranger staff and doing most of the things which they do, our supervisor asked us to attend the same class which all seasonal rangers go through. The class was pretty wide ranging and lasted about six hours per day for six days. Since this park is so very large, travel times were up to 2 1/2 hours as we had a class in each visitor area of the park. From Shark Valley to Flamingo is 88 miles.

This was a great experience and it was by far the most training that we have had for any of the volunteer positions that we have taken part in. It has been a very busy time but we have learned so much that we feel it will prove to have been well worth the effort.