April 10th, 2011 – Circle B Bar Reserve
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Apr.20, 2011, under Florida Outdoors!, Sketchbook
I got to experience the one place I hadn’t been to that I had put in the Swampy’s Florida: Lakeland coloring book, Circle B Bar Reserve, because of my good friend Terisa Glover, who lead the way through this glorious expanse of natural Florida. And whatta a place! Seems to me to be one of the best natural areas in Central Florida. Adjectives are not plentiful enough to use. I drew only one sketch, not even complete the whole time I was there and it is above.
There are a plethora of birds. Above is a great blue heron.
Making up a great part of the trails are lined with cypress along Lake Hancock. Besides birds are many, many alligators. There is a gator in this photo. Way out in the lake and hardly visible. That is the extent of the kinds of photos I got of the gators without a high powered zoom lens. But they are there. Plenty of them.
Here’s Terisa on a typical example of a trail through the reserve.It’s dueling cameras as Terisa also takes a shot.
These fellows are there, too.
Nice, isn’t it?
He crossed the path while rodent hunting.
This large soft shell took the path of least resistance seconds after this photo by moving to the left and sliding down the bank and Plop! into the stream along the trail.
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