Images

Long Pine Key in Everglades National Park contains a pine forest community
indicative of the original pine forests of Florida.

A purple gallinule stands atop the spatterdock at Everglades National Park.

A little blue heron foraging in the waters of Eco Pond, at Everglades National Park.

An immature white ibis poses on the rail as moorhens swim in the background waters of Eco Pond, at Everglades National Park.

Trumpet-shaped flower of the morning glory vine blooms year round at Everglades National Park.

Mangroves frame the west and east sides of the main park road of Everglades National Park, just north of Mrazek Pond

An alligator hides partially submerged in the grassy waters-edge of Taylor
Slough at Everglades National Park.

A butterfly pea vine flowering in the sandy soils of Long Pine Key at Everglades
National Park.

Flowering lantana shrub in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Looking across the waters of Eco Pond at Everglades National Park, with cattails in the foreground and a tree island to the right.

Orchid blooming by a swamp pond in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Blooming bromeliad along a trail in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Flowering dahoon holly in Big Cypress National Preserve.

The sky filled with a profusion of colors as the sun slowly set behind this mangrove island in Florida Bay, at the south end of Everglades National Park.

Washed out bridge on the Rio Grande de Arecibo, Puerto Rico after Hurricane Georges, 1998

View looking up-stream toward Carraizo Dam in Loiza, Puerto Rico, under drought conditions.

Flow conditions near Ledges Sink.

Ledges Sink.

Water flow in the underlying cavity associated with Ledges Sink.

Wil Causseaux climbs through the opening of Ledges Sink to the underlying caverns.

Logs that fall through the overlying bedrock litter the cavern floor.