We hiked 3.6 miles on the Snake Bight trail. A bight is a bay within a bay. The trail guide says "Enter another world as you travel through a tropical hardwood hammock with dozens of tropical tree species, Bird watching may be good from the boardwalk". We got to the bay at low tide and it was only a mud flat with no birds. John is walking in grass with seed heads taller than he is. Bees on white flowers, scorpion tail and a grass seed.
Grass seeds, yellow flowers and a pink one. I don't know the names of the flowers here.
John walking in a tropical tree tunnel. Air plant, quill leaf and a cactus.
Cactus, painted leaf in the poinsettia family and two photos of moon flowers. They only bloom at night. John in a tropical tree tunnel, with different tropical trees.
A tree engulfed by a strangler fig, red coral bean flowers, green berries and a round tree or vine. Sunset from the campground.
High 70's and partly cloudy, but partly sunny and windy. We paddled Hell's Bay canoe trail with Jack and Sue a couple we met in the campground. They are retired and went on vacation a couple months ago and forgot to go home. The trail guide says the trail weaves through a network of mangrove creeks and ponds to a series of small bays. The trail is marked with 160 white pipes. Old timers describe the route as " Hell to get into and hell to get out of" You may see alligators and birds and in the summer be prepared for many insects. We went 7 hours round trip in 4 hours. The put in is a mangrove tunnel.
John with Jack and Sue ahead in their canoe. Narrow channel between mangroves. Without the trail markers you would get hopelessly lost, there are thousands of channels.
Parts of the trail are tunnels, narrow channels with branches above. Other areas widen out a bit. The colors are lovely. Bright green with tropical blue skies and puffy white clouds. With warm soft air.
It was very windy in the open areas. Here are Sue and Jack leaning into the wind and paddling hard to get across.
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