Collier-Seminole State Park.

Enjoyed a morning of paddling canoes through a mangrove swamp. Pictures I took on the water are on my waterproof camera. Can't download those right now so only the dry land photos will be uploaded at this point.
We saw red mangroves - many in flower and many in fruit. Propagules were floating with the current. Prop roots were a tangled mess...right Ashlynn?
Black mangroves were seen just beyond the red ones. Their pneumatophores were along the edge of the water mixed in with the red mangroves' prop roots.
Some of us saw catfish, some saw a baby alligator. The list of birds was long. The most interesting one to me today was seeing an osprey fly off with a fish in its mouth. When we got back to the launch, we saw a great blue heron eating a fish. We saw numerous white ibis, several belted kingfisher, and some snowy egrets. At the parking lot, I saw some mahogany trees with fruit and an interesting member of the Fabaceae family with some impressively armored fruit.