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• Deep in the swamp ...

  I found this alligator hole.
  Days later where I was standing was
  flooded several inches deep.
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at May 07, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Rain nips spring drought in bud

  Here's a sad sight:
  
  The swamp in late spring when even the pond apple go dry.
  
  
  
  It doesn't happen every year ...
  
  And some years when it does, not for long.
  
  
  Days after I filmed this video it rained.
  
  Just like that' [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at May 06, 2012, 8:53pm in Environment

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• Two feet below sea level

  i.e. it was low tide.
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at May 06, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Shellers beware!

  Lightning welks have a beautiful shell.
  
  Of course, never take them as long as they are alive.
  
  This marbled chambered nautilus
  is quite a find ...
  Last summer I inadvertently stepped on the tip of one.
  
  It cut into my toe pretty good.
  
  
  But [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at May 05, 2012, 8:59pm in Environment

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• Hoot of the owl

  Okay, that might not be an owl feather ...
  But one hooted from its roost not too far away.
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at May 05, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Water's edge creeps out

  The recent spring rain soaked into the cypress ...
  
  And pooled in the pond apple.
  
  
  
  I was just happy to see the swamp sporting
  a newly expanded water's edge.
  
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at May 04, 2012, 9:15pm in Environment

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• Pond apple are happy!

  Pond apple trees don't have knees,
  but this one has a leg.
  ' [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at May 04, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Lesley Rochat, courageous Shark Warrior, goes naked to get attention........for the sharks' plight.

  
  It certainly takes a lot of guts to overcome the natural sense of shame to exhibit your body as created by God in public - even if you are a good-looking guy or gal. 
  Lesley Rochat, South Africa's foremost shark activist, has no problems with her nudity' [...]
  From OceanicDreams at May 04, 2012, 9:36am in Environment, Photography and Video

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• This slice of swamp has a mind of its own!

  Before and after photos are fun in the swamp …
  
  Particularly after we have a big “dry season” rain.
  
  The same pond apple tree
  as seen just days apart.
  On the "before photo" (April 19th) I searched even deeper into the dome, i.e. beyond the pond apple, [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at May 03, 2012, 8:21pm in Environment

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• Fastest filling forest in the swamp?

  Pond apple forests refill fast
  after a good dry season rain
  April 2012
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at May 03, 2012, 2:00pm in Environment

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