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.
- sea oats
- Bailey Tract warning
- Bailey Tract
- Bailey Tract
- prescribed fire, Florida style, with burnt palmettos and regenerating grasses, sedges
- Bailey Tract
- gullfeed – a beach plant
- morning glory – a common vine on Sanibel Island
- birds at Ding Darling
- the Southern Cat-tail – Typha domingensis
- wild beach vegetation
- white ibis foraging in the surf
- a baby alligator
- kayaking on Commodore Creek, a brackish waterway that meanders through the mangroves from Tarpon Bay
- Tarpon Bay
- gullfeed (Scaevola), Goodeniaceae