Images

Strangler fig engulfing the trunk of a Sabal palm.

Strangler fig engulfing the trunk of a Sabal palm.

This photo, taken at dawn, depicts the tracks left by a nesting loggerhead sea turtle the previous night. (Right: from the sea; Center: the nesting depression; Left: return to the sea.)

Sandy beach, Seaoats, and two beach chairs on an Atlantic coastal barrier island in central Florida.

Beach erosion by a tropical storm produced the cliff-like escarpment seen in this image and accidentally exposed about 8% of the eggs in this loggerhead sea turtle nest. The protective stakes mark a nest from an earlier week as part of a county research program that marks and records every eighth nest.

Beach erosion by a tropical storm produced the cliff-like escarpment seen in this image and accidentally exposed about 8% of the eggs in this loggerhead sea turtle nest. The protective stakes mark a nest from an earlier week as part of a county research program that marks and records every eighth nest.

Cliff-like erosion escarpment on a Florida beach. The four-to-five foot depth of lost sand exposed egg-shell fragments from a sea turtle nest.

Cliff-like erosion escarpment on a Florida beach. The four-to-five foot depth of lost sand exposed egg-shell fragments from a sea turtle nest.

Cliff-like erosion escarpment on a Florida beach. The four-to-five foot depth of lost sand exposed egg-shell fragments from a sea turtle nest.

A morning photo depicts evidence of a sea turtle nesting the previous night (from the sea, left; return to sea, right). The protective stakes mark a nest from an earlier week as part of a county research program that marks and records every eighth nest.

Sunlight and a late afternoon shower produced this double rainbow above a Florida beach. Note the eroded beach escarpment from a recent tropical storm.

Typical sandbars andsculpted sands left behind by a receding tide.

This bucolic country lane in east central Florida is lined with cabbage palms and oaks, a scene that is made increasingly rare with ongoing pressures of urbanization.

Large, cliff-like beach escarpment produced by waves from a tropical storm. Note also the prominent animal burrow.

Sunlight and a late afternoon shower produced this double rainbow above a Florida beach. Note the eroded beach escarpment from a recent tropical storm.

Sunlight and a late afternoon shower produced this double rainbow above a Florida beach. Note the eroded beach escarpment from a recent tropical storm.

Sunlight and a late afternoon shower produced this double rainbow above a Florida beach.

Sunlight and an offshore shower produced this double rainbow off Florida's east coast.

Sunlight and an offshore shower produced this double rainbow off Florida's east coast.

Florida beach at low tide. Note the sandbar and sculpted sands in the intertidal zone.

Typical sandbars and sculpted sands left behind by a receding tide.