The swamp looks primordial during the summer wet season …
As if at any moment a dinosaur will emerge from behind a palmetto stand.
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View of a dry marl prairie in January 2011: pine islands in the background and a circular marsh in the front |
During the winter it looks like the dry-open plains of the Serengeti.
Only instead of lions we have panthers.
Somewhere between 100 and 200 at last count.