Photography, Fun, and Adventure in the U.S.
We stopped in Naples in southwest Florida so that we could spend some time exploring what some consider should be the fourth national park in the state… Big Cypress National Preserve, established in 1974. This 729,000-acre preserve protects the freshwaters of the Big Cypress Swamp — which is essential to
Imagine a vista of grass and water, with a few small tree islands sprinkled about the horizon, for as far as the eyes can see… filled with waterfowl like Anhingas and Egrets as well as alligators and turtles… and you have an idea of the everglades. Florida has three national
We left Texas for Southern Louisiana, the land of the “sportsman’s paradise” so named because of the diversity of fish, wildlife, and water in the area — including rivers, lakes, swamps, wetlands, and the Gulf of Mexico… and, of course, bayous! Louisiana, the 15th state we have visited since the