The canopy tree walk was just NEAT! The walkway has a swaying suspension bridge that puts you among the trees and then a tower that soars 76 feet up overlooks spectacular views of live oak and palm (actually a grass) treetops, wetlands, prairie, hammocks, the lake and Myakka River a wild and scenic river. Until recently, we didn't know much about life in the treetops, but now there are over 20 canopy walkways worldwide doing scientific research.
At the top above and in the trees at the right.
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| Pat in the clouds |
The largest/longest is 1/4 mile and 120feet high in Amazonian Peru. Scientists are also using airships and treetop rafts, multilevel towers, cranes and single rope techniques to measure the forests health and monitoring the earth-atmosphere interface. You can't see the alligators on the river but they are there just floating like black logs on the surface. I know I should get a better camera, but I am so challenged with them and never really had any luck. I am reading this fabulous book about Florida about the early pioneers (outlaws mostly) who came and farmed and ranged cattle in this area and the Everglades. Lost Man's River by Peter Matthiessen.
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