The Lookout
by terranovabay
An Opsrey watches a departing freighter from atop the jetty marker at the entrance to Port Canaveral.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Fish Hawk, Osprey, Pandion haliaetus, Port Canaveral
Category Archives: Scenery
Diverging Trails
by terranovabay
A panorama of a fork in the trails taken early Sunday morning during a photographic insect survey of the South Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). The heat and humidity on the trail ended the photo survey well before noon.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, South ORCA
Lakeside view at the Savannahs
by terranovabay
A view across the lake at the Indrio Savannahs. The lake is an artificial construction, being the water filled pit of an old sand mine. A common enough feature in Florida. In fact, developments build around them and call it waterfront property. Sure, why not?
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Indrio Savannahs, Sand Mine
Recondite Greenhouses
by terranovabay
A rare midweek holiday – July 4th – allowed me to pay an early morning visit to the Demonstration Garden at the University of Florida’s IFAS facility outside of Ft. Pierce in a quest to find insects and other small critters for my bug program currently in production. What I remembered as a beautiful walk through native plants and their habitats from a few years ago is now an overgrown morass of invasive exotics with native plants struggling to survive. […]
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Demonstration Garden, Ft. Pierce, IFAS, Institute of Food and Agricultural Services, St. Lucie County, University of Florida
Indrio Savannahs Panorama
by terranovabay
An almost 180-degree panorama taken from atop the observation tower overlooking the wetlands at the Indrio Savannahs. Although it is only mid-morning, the blazing temperature kept most of the wildlife out of sight and undercover and made the hike out and back one sweaty affair.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Indrio Savannahs, St. Lucie County
Twin Peaks
by terranovabay
For east central coastal Florida, this is quite an elevation change for a pile of dirt at Port Canaveral.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Florida, Port Canaveral
Waiting for the Freight Train
by terranovabay
Railroad crossing scenic — east coast Florida.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Florida, Indian River County, railroad, Train
Saturday Trail Spanish Moss
by terranovabay
Spanish Moss along the trail at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences reports that Spanish Moss is not a moss but a bromeliad. An epiphyte that grows on others plants without relying on them for nutrients, rather taking their moisture and other nutrients from the air and detritus that comes near it. And contrary to popular belief, Spanish Moss is harmless to the plant it is growing on.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: hike, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Spanish Moss
Friday Trail Flower
by terranovabay
Sam and I came upon this Beggar’s Tick (Bidens alba) along the trail at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). The Florida Wildflower Foundation calls it “…likely the most under-appreciated of all Florida’s native wildflower.”
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Beggar’s Tick, Bidens alba, Florida Wildflower Foundation, hike, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Sam
Thursday Trail
by terranovabay
Early morning hike with Sam through the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA), which is sopping wet from all the recent heavy rainfall.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: hike, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Sam
