Tag: Big Cypress National Preserve

Young Alligator on top of Adult (1)
Blog, Florida Other, Wildlife

Gators in the Glades

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. […]

Welcome to the Everglades
Blog, Florida Other

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 […]

Long Pine Key Lake Sunset Clouds, Everglades National Park, Florida
Blog, Florida Other

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 at Sunrise
Blog, Travel

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 […]

Reeds and Rainbow
Blog, Travel

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 […]