Normally this area is under a foot or so of water, but nearly all of it was dry - interesting as you can then see the roots of plants you wouldn't be able to otherwise. Still, its not that far above sea level.
Close to the entrance it looked like some of it had a controlled fire recently. I didn't see burning deeper into the sanctuary.
Charred Sable Palm.
These about 1" long catepillars make webs around tree branches - they move around the web and eat the leaves that are enclosed by the web. At one point there are so many catepillars that you can hear clicks - sounds of them eating.
A lizard performing a mating dance on the walkway. It would do a couple of "push-ups" and then extend that red flap.
One type of air plant. It sticks on something - generally a tree, though I saw one stuck to the side of the walkway - and lives off of what falls through the air, doing no harm to what they are stuck on to.
The root of a cypress tree - the darker area at the bottom shows where the water line was supposed to be.
A Saw Palmetto leaf.
A Buttonbush and its button.
A glimpse of a fast moving butterfly - the reddish-brown blob - probably a Ruddy Dagger Wing.
A green lizard on a rotting tree.
Deer tracks in the cracked mud. Didn't see any deer though.
Lizards on a sign.
Slightly out of focus frog.
Pickerelweed.
Water dropwort.
Cypress knees.
A gator approaches. All the furrows are gator tracks.
A gator in the water - one of around 15 in that pool.
Another gator pond.
More gator tracks.
Little Blue Heron.
Barred Owl.
A Great Egret (blue) and a gator (red) just above the water's surface staring at it.
Sand Cordgrass.
Broken Apple Snail shells.
Great Egret eating fish - the water was so low the fish were flopping in the mud and the egrets picking them up and swallowing them.
Pond Cypress.
Ferns.
Looking up into the trees.
