During your park visit, you can walk on a nature trail at Elliott Key sheltered by silent green leaves, or find a place where a sense of history still whispers in the wind. At Boca Chita Key as well as other park areas, you may encounter the fluttering of shorebirds wings as they land on the beach, lapping water on the fossilized coral shorelines, or encounter a thunderstorm. At the Dante Fascell Visitor Center, you can walk along the mangrove fringe shoreline, where you may hear the occasional slap of a grouper's tail, a snort of a manatee, and the call of an osprey. Many other natural intermittent sounds can be heard in the park that can inspire visitor's with a sense of peace and tranquility. Soon you will discover that complete park experiences feature both sights and sounds.
People experience soundscapes by hearing, rather than by seeing.
Soundscapes may include both mechanical and natural sounds. They may vary in their character from day to night, and from season to season. Natural Soundscapes are park resources that may include the sound created by wind, flowing water, crashing waves, mammals, birds, insects, and other biological and physical components. Natural Ambient Sound Levels are the natural soundscape conditions that exist in a park in the absence of any human-produced noise. This is sometimes referred to as natural quiet.