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Flooded marsh
The marsh of Water Conservation Area 3 as seen looking north of I-75 (Alligator Alley). Spatterdock are seen in the foreground.... 
Flooded marsh
Flooded marshes of Water Conservation Area 3 (WCA-3), seen north of I-75 (Alligator Alley)....
Flock of birds
A large flock of birds, mostly egrets, resting and flying along a canal on Highway 833 (a short drive north off of I-75 (Alligator Alley))....
Fiddler crab burrows
Fiddler crab burrows abound in and around the intricate red mangrove root system submerged in the muddy tidal flats at West Lake Park....
Red mangrove trees
Young red mangrove trees grow among the prop roots of mature red mangroves at West Lake Park....
Red mangrove
A red mangrove and its intricate aerial root system in west lake waters....
Red mangroves
A tangle of red mangroves and their roots at low tide in West Lake Park....
Mangroves and mud flats
Mangroves bordering the West Lake mud flats exposed by low tide....
Red mangrove leaves
Leaf detail of red mangrove at West Lake Park....
Mangroves and mud flats
Low tide in the mangrove forest of West Lake Park....
Mangroves and water
Looking down from the Anne Kolb Nature Center's five-story observation tower at an extensive mangrove canopy and West Lake....
Freshwater swamp
Freshwater swamp covered with the aquatic plants duckweed and water spangles, at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge....
Impoundment at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
Looking southwest across the pickerelweed and waters of impoundment #7 at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge....
Cattails
A close-up of cattails found within the predominately cattail marsh of impoundment #8 at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge....
Pickerelweed
Long heart-shaped leaves and a few violet-blue flowers of the pickerelweed extend above the swamp waters at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge....
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