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Image: Boat Exiting Navigational Lock
Boat Exiting Navigational Lock
Boat Exiting Navigational Lock
Boat Exiting Navigational Lock

With canal-side gates closed behind them and the Lake Okeechobee lakeside
gates open before them, a boater slowly exits from the Port Mayaca
Navigational Lock.

With canal-side gates closed behind them and the Lake Okeechobee lakeside
gates open before them, a boater slowly exits from the Port Mayaca
Navigational Lock.

Image: Closing Lakeside Gates at Navigational Lock
Closing Lakeside Gates at Navigational Lock
Closing Lakeside Gates at Navigational Lock
Closing Lakeside Gates at Navigational Lock

U.S. Army Corps of Engineer personnel overlooks the closing of the lakeside
gates at the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock. Lake Okeechobee is in the
background.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineer personnel overlooks the closing of the lakeside
gates at the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock. Lake Okeechobee is in the
background.

Image: Turf Farm
Turf Farm
Turf Farm
Turf Farm

Seen beyond the dirt road are smooth, green grasses of a turf farm located in
the vicinity of Lake Okeechobee.

Seen beyond the dirt road are smooth, green grasses of a turf farm located in
the vicinity of Lake Okeechobee.

Image: Orange Grove Rows
Orange Grove Rows
Orange Grove Rows
Orange Grove Rows

Looking through the rows of an orange grove located in the vicinity of Lake
Okeechobee.

Looking through the rows of an orange grove located in the vicinity of Lake
Okeechobee.

Image: Canal and Water Control Structure
Canal and Water Control Structure
Canal and Water Control Structure
Canal and Water Control Structure

Canal 59 in the foreground and Control Structure S-191, which controls water
flow into Lake Okeechobee.

Image: St. Lucie Canal
St. Lucie Canal
St. Lucie Canal
St. Lucie Canal

Looking eastward from the middle of the Port Mayaca Dam, at the St. Lucie
Canal, which connects to Lake Okeechobee.

Looking eastward from the middle of the Port Mayaca Dam, at the St. Lucie
Canal, which connects to Lake Okeechobee.

Image: Boaters Anchor at Navigational Lock
Boaters Anchor at Navigational Lock
Boaters Anchor at Navigational Lock
Boaters Anchor at Navigational Lock

To gain access to Lake Okeechobee, boaters anchor themselves to the Port
Mayaca Navigational Lock wall as the canal-side gates close.

To gain access to Lake Okeechobee, boaters anchor themselves to the Port
Mayaca Navigational Lock wall as the canal-side gates close.

Image: Open lakeside gates at navigational lock
Open lakeside gates at navigational lock
Open lakeside gates at navigational lock
Open lakeside gates at navigational lock

Looking through the open lakeside gates of the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock,
onto Lake Okeechobee.

Image: Boats ready to exit navigational lock
Boats ready to exit navigational lock
Boats ready to exit navigational lock
Boats ready to exit navigational lock

With the Lake Okeechobee lakeside gates open, boaters get ready to exit the
Port Mayaca Navigational Lock.

With the Lake Okeechobee lakeside gates open, boaters get ready to exit the
Port Mayaca Navigational Lock.

Image: Boat Entering Lake Okeechobee
Boat Entering Lake Okeechobee
Boat Entering Lake Okeechobee
Boat Entering Lake Okeechobee

Boaters leave the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock and head out into the open
waters of Lake Okeechobee.

Boaters leave the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock and head out into the open
waters of Lake Okeechobee.

Image: Double-Crested Cormorant
Double-Crested Cormorant
Double-Crested Cormorant
Double-Crested Cormorant

On the Lake side of Control Structure S-191, a double-crested cormorant
balances atop a buoy floating in Lake Okeechobee.

On the Lake side of Control Structure S-191, a double-crested cormorant
balances atop a buoy floating in Lake Okeechobee.

Image: Oklahoma Groundwater Efforts
Oklahoma Groundwater Efforts
Oklahoma Groundwater Efforts
Oklahoma Groundwater Efforts

USGS Student Jessica Magers examining outcrop of the Rush Springs aquifer in Caddo County, Oklahoma for arsenic and other metals concentration.

USGS Student Jessica Magers examining outcrop of the Rush Springs aquifer in Caddo County, Oklahoma for arsenic and other metals concentration.

Image: American Beauty Berry Shrub
American Beauty Berry Shrub
American Beauty Berry Shrub
American Beauty Berry Shrub

At the end of the boardwalk behind the Briggs Nature Center at Rookery Bay
National Estuarine Research Reserve, clusters of magenta fruits surround the
stems of this American beauty berry shrub.

At the end of the boardwalk behind the Briggs Nature Center at Rookery Bay
National Estuarine Research Reserve, clusters of magenta fruits surround the
stems of this American beauty berry shrub.

Image: Brackish Pond Community
Brackish Pond Community
Brackish Pond Community
Brackish Pond Community

Looking from an observation deck, at Rookery Bay National Estuarine
Research Reserve, onto a flock of birds resting in a brackish (somewhat salty)
pond community. Mangrove islands grow inside and along the edges of the
pond.

Looking from an observation deck, at Rookery Bay National Estuarine
Research Reserve, onto a flock of birds resting in a brackish (somewhat salty)
pond community. Mangrove islands grow inside and along the edges of the
pond.

Image: Interior of Bob Allen Key
Interior of Bob Allen Key
Interior of Bob Allen Key
Interior of Bob Allen Key

A short walk through the shallow mangrove perimeter to the interior of Bob Allen Key affords this view of a mostly clear, shallow ponded area.

A short walk through the shallow mangrove perimeter to the interior of Bob Allen Key affords this view of a mostly clear, shallow ponded area.

Image: Great White Heron
Great White Heron
Great White Heron
Great White Heron

A great white heron standing atop a dock in Florida Bay.

Image: Little Madeira Bay
Little Madeira Bay
Little Madeira Bay
Little Madeira Bay

Looking south from Little Madeira Bay at a line of Key islands in Florida Bay.

Looking south from Little Madeira Bay at a line of Key islands in Florida Bay.

Image: Channel Between Key Islands
Channel Between Key Islands
Channel Between Key Islands
Channel Between Key Islands

Looking through a channel between the mangrove tree Florida Key islands, south of Boggy Key.

Image: Great White Heron Atop Mangrove Roots
Great White Heron Atop Mangrove Roots
Great White Heron Atop Mangrove Roots
Great White Heron Atop Mangrove Roots

A great white heron standing atop the mangrove roots of Boggy Key; a Florida Key island.

Image: Red Mangrove Root System
Red Mangrove Root System
Red Mangrove Root System
Red Mangrove Root System

Red mangroves and their root systems at the edge of Shell Key, in Florida Bay.

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