Last year’s record spring drought (2009) followed this year’s prodigious dry season rains (2010) paints quite the hydrologic contrast at Big Cypress Nat’l Preserve’s Sweetwater Strand.
May 2010
Here’s a view from the Sweetwater Bridge looking “downstream”
And a view of the bridge (standing in shin deep water) just a little ways “upstream.”
May 2009
I have trouble saying “upstream” or “downstream” for these two since there wasn’t any water.