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Everglades National Park

Pictures by QT Luong

[1 : Overview][2 : Sawgrasses and Pinelands] [3 : Cypress] [4 : Mangroves] [5 : Birds]
[6 : Alligators and people] [All]

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Everglades national park, located at the southern tip of Florida, was the first national park created specifically to protect not scenery, but one of the most unique and endangered ecosystem, the world largest marshland. Although the water appears at first still, it actually is part of a river, moving 100 feet a day, a few inches to a few feet deep, and 50 miles wide, flowing from Lake Okeechobee into the Gulf of Florida. The cycle of this water, where six dry winter months alternate with six wet summer months, is essential for the survival of the rich and complex web of life of the park, but has been disturbed by development and canals upstream.

Most visitors are justifiably drawn to the dynamic inhabitants of the park, the wading birds and alligators. Nowhere else in North America are the birds that diverse, abundant and easy to observe and photograph. The plant life is no less interesting, in its unique mix of temperate and tropical species. The saw-grass prairie, with its stands of cypress, is progressively replaced by mangroves as the water gets more salty near the Florida Bay. The rock bed beneath the Everglades, only 6000 to 8000 year old, is one of the youngest on the continent, surfacing only since the Ice Age, and nowhere higher than 8 feet. A difference of elevation of just a few feet give rise to small islands called hammocks, which are a whole different world from the wet prairie, and are densely forested with tropical trees such as gunbo limbo and mahogany.

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Slash pines silhouettes at sunrise. Everglades National Park ( color) Sawgrass prairie, pines, and clouds at sunrise, near Mahogany Hammock. Everglades National Park ( color) Sun rises above pine trees and a layer of mist on the ground. Everglades National Park (Panoramic color) Cypress at sunrise, near Pa-hay-okee. Everglades National Park ( color) Cypress and sun rays, sunrise, near Pa-hay-okee. Everglades National Park ( color) Marsh near Ahinga trail, late afternoon. Everglades National Park ( color) Slash pines and saw-palmetttos, remnants of Florida's flatwoods. Everglades National Park ( color) Eco pond, morning. Everglades National Park ( color) Swamp lilly (Crinum americanum) and sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense). Everglades National Park ( color) Dark clouds in motion at sunset over lake. Everglades National Park (Panoramic color) Red mangroves on West Lake. Everglades National Park ( color) Red mangroves. Everglades National Park ( color) Tropical forest, Snake Bight trail. Everglades National Park ( color) Peeling bark of the Gumbo Limbo tree. Everglades National Park ( color) Calm sky and cypress trees reflexions. Everglades National Park (Panoramic color) Cypress at Pa-hay-okee, dusk. Everglades National Park ( color) Yellow carnivorous flower and cypress. Everglades National Park ( color) Bromeliad and cypress inside a dome. Everglades National Park ( color) Mangroves several miles inland near Parautis pond, sunrise. Everglades National Park ( color) Fallen mangrove tree in Florida Bay, sunrise. Everglades National Park ( color) Mangroves and low islands in Florida Bay, dusk. Everglades National Park ( color) Clearing storm on Florida Bay seen from the Keys, sunset. Everglades National Park ( color) Ahinga. Everglades National Park ( color) Tri-colored heron. Everglades National Park ( color) Great Blue Heron. Everglades National Park ( color) Alligator eye emerging from swamp. Everglades National Park ( color) Alligator raising head. Everglades National Park ( color)

All text and photos © QT Luong. See conditions for use of images. There are 27 color pictures on this page out of 167 color pictures of Everglades.

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