[pronounced “sloo”!]
A trip to a nature preserve today led us first to an impressive heron sculpture, part of the parking lot with a wing giving cover to a seating area!
From parking, a boardwalk took us through flooded Florida swamp with really still water for reflection photos, and eventually to various lakes:
Various wildlife too – here’s photos of a small turtle on a fallen branch, and a much bigger one in the distant water:
Later, we spotted our only Alligator, half of it at least, on a log with another turtle …
Tried to take photos of fish too – hard with the reflections, but a couple came out (the long skinny fish is a Florida Gar, the other might be a catfish – there were many of these, all in dug outs in the sand, or even what appeared to be tunnels/caves in the sand!)
M&I / GBMINI 