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The South Florida Watershed Journal

• End of the road?

  Almost ...
  
  Just a thousand feet more and the pier comes to an end.
  
  
  But, in the time before roads, that's when the journey just began.
  
  Getting to and from Naples meant going by boat.
  
  
  That made Naples Pier more a beginning than [...]
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• High and dry ... sort of

  Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
  over wetted marl
  [...]
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• Destination hiker

  Swamp hikes are notoriously slow.
  
  Two hundred feet can feel like a country mile.
  
  
  
  Fortunately there's lots to see with every step.
  
  (And things you can't see like submerged cypress stumps.)' [...]
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• Florida Trail's southern terminus

  
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• "I don't remember it being this hard?"

  A spring hike on the Florida Trail ...
  
  
  Is a lot easier than a summer slog.
  
  
  Can you guess why?
  
  Hint: The answer is shown in the photos above.
  
  [...]
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• Cow Horn Orchid

  Flower Base at tree
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• Orchid hunter

  Orchids have a reputation of requiring all day hikes to find,
  
  And even then, there is no guarantee they are in bloom.
  
  Can you guess what kind of orchid?
  Here's a case of one jumping out to greet me.
  
  Quite literally it was reaching ten feet [...]
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• Caloosahatchee leads basins

  As shown above, the East Caloosahatchee Basin
  (with 10.4 inches) started the wet season
  with the most rain.
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• Does the wet season ever sleep?

  The rainiest part of the wet season is over.
  
  So how did south Florida fair?
  
  Last year's wet season started off slow.
  Compare that to 2005 and 2009 that started off fast.
  According to the chart above,
  
  Right around average.
  
  
  The six week period [...]
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• Pond apple test

  If pond apple is floating, swamp is wet.
  If pond apple is resting on ground, swamp is dry.
  [...]
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