hey willow...

your link failed...

ken

Hmm. i will fix it. Thanks.

hey 'base of aspirin .. i am still waiting...

and out of willow puns...

maybe i should be weeping.. carp.. now i am out.. lol

ken

Link works just fine...it doesn't need an asprin after all!

Here is a link that might be useful: South Florida June 2013

Thanks Barbara!

Very nice trees, but one powerful ugly foot.

Thanks.

tj

i liked the sign annoucing the forest.. Elevation.. FOUR FEET .. lol ...

now would that be 'four powerful ugly feet'???

thx for the pix....

ken

ps: i switched form google to yahoo.. and apparently one or both dont mesh with the other ... go figure...

Cool. Maybe what it might have looked like 150 million years ago.

Why the dwarf cypress? That swamp is just so inhospitable that only the Taxodium can survive there? But they can just barely stay alive, sort of a natural bonsai effect like a conifer on the rocks in an arid area?

This post was edited by noki on Sat, Jun 15, 13 at 1:19

Hey, my foot wasn't supposed to be there!

The cypress are dwarf due to a combination of limestone being right at the surface and the high water tables. You see the same thing in northern bogs with dwarf black spruce and tamarack when the water table is high. I suppose hurricanes help keep them short statured too.

Thanks for the tour! What is the long needled pine and are there alligators in that water?!!

Barbara

Maybe what it might have looked like 150 million years ago.

==>>> what ???? his foot???

lol

ken

ps: refresh my memory .. or teach me... is the water salt water or fresh .... and how do they cope if a hurricane brings in all salty??? .. i do seem to recall.. that the glades are technically a river ... as in .. ever moving ... teach me man.. i gotta know ...

Cool. Taxodium ascendens is a neat-o tree. Looks like good fishing in the lake-type areas for catfish??? I agree though with Barbara, and think about alligators and crazy-crazy snakes! I'd feel much more comfortable from a dock... way off the ground!

Cheers,

Dax

There are certainly alligators and crocodiles (in the brackish water) and also moccasins etc., but I don't worry about them. In fact, my family and I were wading in that lake. It was perfectly clear and was a freshwater lake. With the slash pine forest around, it reminded me of a boreal scene (with red pines of course).

Barbara - The pines are south Florida slash pine, Pinus elliottii var. densa. Some consider them a separate species, closer to Pinus caribaea than typical slash pine.

I really love those pine forests down in that area. And like you say Sal, and like we've discussed here before, if you survey the scene without paying attention to the ground layer of saw palmetto, etc. it does indeed look like certain areas of the northern forest. That's one of the first things I noticed when I first went down there. Thanks for the pics.

+oM