Gators are what the Everglades ecosystem is all about. They help create water holes in teh dry season which helps sustain life in the Glades. We saw a lot of gators plus one american crocodile. South Florida is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles lives together. […]
Tag: Big Cypress National Preserve
Everglades Spring Break Trip
This year for spring break we travelled to South Florida and visited several National Parks/preserves and a state park plus Corkscrew Sanctuary. We saw a lot of alligators, some cool birds, 8 snakes including a Pygmy rattlesnake and a young water moccasin and a ribbon snake trying to eat a […]
Big Cypress and the Everglades
On our way to Everglades National Park over Spring Break of this year, we stopped in Big Cypress National Preserve. We took an airboat ride where we saw the gator below slinking into the swamp. We also took a few of the short trails where I captured these flowers amid […]
Spring Break
Over Spring Break this year we took the kids on a trip down to the Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park, 2 of my favorite places. We started in Big Cypress and found this Buttonbush Flower along the first boardwalk along with the Florida Water Snakes from my […]
Clouds in HDR
One of the things I really like about HDR is how it puts an emphasis on the clouds. I do not like HDR for a lot of my nature photography, but if there is a good sky, especially with some nice clouds then I will use HDR. The first shot […]
A few more from south Florida
Tonight a few more from my trip to south Florida last week. First, another shot of the rainbow. In this one you can see a little bit of the double rainbow. This was after I sat through the storm a second time, this time at Fakahatchee Strand Preserve. For new […]
Big Cypress Preserve Sightings
On my trip last week to the Big Cypress National Preserve wildlife was a bit scarce except for a few gators trying to soak up the sun on the side of the road. Two less common things that I was able to photograph were the Big Cypress Fox Squirrel and […]