Adventure Travel Photo of the Day: Fakahatchee Strand Preserve

Journey into Florida’s Amazon

Nick Zantop
Journey into Florida's Amazon, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Florida Photograph by Nick Zantop      The Big Cypress Bend Boardwalk takes visitors 3200 feet into the thick subtropical swam...
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Birds of a Feather

Nick Zantop
Birds of a Feather, J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, Florida, United States Photograph by Nick Zantop      As the sun set over J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Ref...

Stargazing

Nick Zantop
Stargazing, Ocala National Forest, Florida Photograph by Nick Zantop Bright moonlight illuminates a stand of longleaf pines in Ocala National Forest. These beautiful pines take 100 to 150 ye...

Sentinels of the Prairie

Nick Zantop
Photograph by Nick Zantop Longleaf Pines rise into the sky over the Juniper Prairie Wilderness in northern Florida's Ocala National Forest. The 14,283 acre Juniper Prairie Wilderness is completely...

Fields Aflame

Nick Zantop
Photograph by Nick Zantop The sun sets behind a field of golden grass in the Juniper Prairie Wilderness of Ocala National Forest in northern Florida.  The 14,283 acre Juniper Prairie Wilderness is...

Lord of the Lake

Nick Zantop
Photograph by Nick Zantop A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), surveys its watery habitat in South Florida. A large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, the Great Blue Heron can be found near th...

The Invader

Nick Zantop
Photograph by Nick Zantop A female brown basilisk lizard is seen here warming herself on a rock in Palm Beach County, Florida. While this species, often referred to as a Jesus Lizard because of its a...

Field of Color

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Photograph by Stephen Wolfe A field of sunflowers bursts with color outside Milton, Florida, a small town of 7,000 near Pensacola. An annual plant native to the Americas, the sunflower (Helianthus ...

I Belong in the Sky

Nick Zantop
I Belong in the Sky, Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens, Florida, United States Photograph by Nick Zantop      A koi leaps from its watery, lake-bound world into the sky, competing with a swi...