Images

Budding spatterdocks are seen floating atop the Taylor Slough waters at
Everglades National Park.

A female anhinga roosts in the trees at Everglades National Park.

Looking from the Mahogany Hammock boardwalk at Everglades National Park, hammocks interrupt the flat sawgrass expanse.

Skeletal patterns within the quarry wall at Windley Quarry show how coral formations might grow inside a coral reef.

A red-shouldered hawk roosts in the lush greenery at Everglades National Park.

Looking down from the Mahogany Hammock boardwalk at Everglades National Park, periphyton is abundant in the watery seagrass.

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.

Flowering dahoon holly in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Blooming bromeliad along a trail 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.

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.

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.

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

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