Weekend in the swamp
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- From: james singer i*@verizon.net
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:07:30 -0400
Ms. Fatma and I went to Corkscrew Swamp Preserve in Naples this weekend. CSP is owned by National Audubon, is about 6,000 acres, with collection of pine and cypress hammocks. A 2-1/2 mile boardwalk wanders through part of it. Interesting place. It's a nesting area for the wood stork, which apparently is endangered. Lots of wild flowers--marsh mallows, arrowroot, pickerel weed, crinum lilies, water lilies, and lots more--were in bloom. Pond apples [Annona glabra] were in fruit. We saw three river otters--they jumped up on the boardwalk maybe 50 feet ahead of us [pictures didn't come out; too dark].
Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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