Lift off (out of drought)
Here's more aerial footage of Big Cypress Nat'l Preserve, taken about two months ago. At the end of the clip, off in the distance, you'll see the now-extingished Deep Fire burning in its early stage. As big as that fire was (several tens of square miles big), it's a mere speck in the woods of the greater Everglades ecosystem.
And how time flies: the swamps have lifted off (out of drought) thanks to record May rainfalls and a wet start in June.
5 comments:
Hi Bob, I'm so glad that Mother Nature has given you all some much-needed rain... I'm sure all of the vegetation in Florida is saying THANK YOU.
Betsy
Boy does the comment box take a long time to come up. I almost gave up.
Love your aerial footage and envy your high altitude trips.
Keep that rain coming Florida.
Hi,
Do you have any aerial footage of what it looks like now after all of our recent rain? I haven't been out there since the rain came, need to make a trip.
Thanks,
Christy
Thanks for you comments.
Yes, droughts take months to unfold (in slow motion), but isn't it so often the case that the end (abruptly) with a flood.
I have some recent photos of the this year's wet season, but none from the air. But I have plenty on file from previous years.
I think I see smoke from a fire. Must be comforting, especially to a hydrologist, to see a healthy dose of rain early in the year.
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