Botanizing in southwest Florida is like starting from scratch. There’s not a single thing there that’s familiar from home: which makes it very interesting. It was a lot of fun to see alligators, pelicans and palm trees and lots of things I could only guess at.
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- sea oats
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- Bailey Tract warning
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- Bailey Tract
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- Bailey Tract
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- prescribed fire, Florida style, with burnt palmettos and regenerating grasses, sedges
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- Bailey Tract
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- gullfeed – a beach plant
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- morning glory – a common vine on Sanibel Island
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- birds at Ding Darling
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- the Southern Cat-tail – Typha domingensis
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- wild beach vegetation
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- white ibis foraging in the surf
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- a baby alligator
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- kayaking on Commodore Creek, a brackish waterway that meanders through the mangroves from Tarpon Bay
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- Tarpon Bay
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- gullfeed (Scaevola), Goodeniaceae