North Central Florida jungle expedition

[kylecawazafla]

I went on a walk after some AP tests again today. I probably shouldn't be doing these things by myself, but I took some photos along the way:

A healthy Sabal minor

This may be unique in Florida, but a mature Serenoa repens growing by itself! I didn't see another one anywhere in this forest.

A jungle-ee Sabal palmetto

[kylecawazafla]

A sabal palmetto showing it's clean trunk

This one decided to keep its boots

And now for some wildlife

A turtle rolling its eyes at me

I rediscovered the Ivory billed woodpecker!!

it's just a Pileated Woodpecker. When I saw it I thought it was an Ivory so I spent 20 minutes trying to get a picture of it, and when I came home I looked at some pictures and got a little dissapointed.

[kylecawazafla]

And then some jungle scenes

[kylecawazafla]

And what a few minutes of rain can do:

it all sank DEEP into the ground after a few minutes though since we are in a huge drought

[paulgila]

cool pix,kyle.so different from here...yer pix really reminded me of that.

thanks fer posting them!

[SubTropicRay]

Great woodpecker shot Kyle.

[Kris]

Dear Kyle  

nice photography and the turtle scene is my favouriate !

thanks for the efforts & do take care of your photo machine,

since these equipments hate moisture_Rain,sea shore &

pools which has lots of water splashing out.

all cameras are made to last for at least 3 years but those in

high humid areas & those proffessionals who do photo sessions on rainforest or for national geography type their

equipments lasts hardly 8 months to one and half years...

since the lens gets containinted with fungus like we see

in plants !

thanks once again,

Love,

Kris  

[PalmGuyWC]

Hey Kyle,

A Palieated woodpecker is a good shot too.  There aren't that many of them around. I remember seeing only a couple of them when I lived in Fla. The jungle shots are nice too.

Dick