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I managed to find a couple of relatively impressive cypress trees on
my latest trip to Florida. We found the first one while paddling our
canoe down the spring run at Manatee Springs State Park. This was a
few days before the record-setting flood waters on the Suwanee River
hit the park and shut it down. Everything was normal when we first
got
there and we were able to put the canoe in before the flood waters
got
bad.
I suspect this tree was hollow, as it was so much larger than any
other tree around. But I'm not sure. We had to beach the canoe and I
got out so that my wife could snap this photo:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/pLDTTZuoRmg8Rb2V7oGh8Q?authkey=Gv1sRgCIPm4cXWo_ruzgE&feat=directlink
Here's the only other sizable cypress we saw. This one was in
Fanning
Springs State Park, a few miles away from Manatee Springs. By the
time
I found it, the flood waters were beginning to wreck and inundate
the
local springs. If I'd seen this one a few days earlier, I could have
walked all around it. As it was, the waters had already surrounded
the
trunk and I was only able to get a few feet from it. Once again,
Carole took this shot for me.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/4_cMRaJMYnA8EmuKo7-rxw?authkey=Gv1sRgCIPm4cXWo_ruzgE&feat=directlink
St. Joseph Peninsula is a nice one. We tend, in the past few years,
to
hit the parks with first and second magnitude springs. That's where
we
have the most fun. Also, the National Forest springs--many of those
have great campgrounds where we take our travel trailer.
Continued at:
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/e50a76cb6cf9c206?hl=en
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