Category: Nature

Return to the Everglades 2025 – PART THREE

02/16/2025
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Third Trip to the Everglades – February 2025 The Everglades sits on top of a porous limestone basin that allows much of the water to be retained within the aquifer.  As plants slowly decay, they release weak acids that attack the rock to carve out these “solution holes”.   Groundwater will fill the pockets creating…

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A Beautiful Sunrise Over Crescent Lake, Crescent City, Florida

01/17/2025
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Capturing a beautiful sunrise with a drone This morning’s sunrise over Crescent Lake was captured using a DJI Mavic Mini 2.  Some of the best places to be to shoot a sunrise or sunset in the state of Florida will be over a lake.  Florida has more than 30,000 lakes so as you can imagine,…

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My Trip to Virginia

06/18/2024
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Part One of Two Last week we loaded up the camper and made a trip to Richmond, Virginia to see our son. We weren’t able to stay at our usual campground because they didn’t have vacancy for the days we needed.  I was fortunate enough to find a campground not too far away in Petersburg. …

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