Yesterday we boarded a boat that took us up the Loxahatchee river starting from a saltwater mangrove environment and gradually changed to completely fresh water with a blend of temperate and tropical vegetation. The upper NW fork of the river is one of the few wild and natural rivers remaining in SE Florida. Here we visited the Trapper Nelson site, Trapper came to live here in 1936. In 38 year he became a local legend known as the Wild Man of the Loxahatchee. He lived off the land and constructed his home and cabins, open a native animal zoo and wrestled alligators for income.
Going up river into the fresh water
This was an Osprey nest, now taken over by a great Horned Owl
There is a book published on Trapper Nelson called Life and Death on the Loxahatchee, I ordered one and will read it when we get back home. Click on the picture to enlarge.
Some of the building on Trapper's site
The trees are full of Air Plants that are non parasitic, they get their nourishment from the air, the Spanish moss and the flowering plants are air plants.
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