he pool at the base of Abrams Falls on Abrams Creek Makes a wonderful destination for a swim. The trailhead for the 2.5 mile hike to the falls, which is rated moderate to difficult, is located at the west end of the Cades Cove Loop road.

At 20 feet in height,Abrams Falls is not tall, but the large volume of water makes it impressive. It also makes swimming near the base of the falls very dangerous. A number of people got too close and drowned.

Look northwest along the shoreline of St. Joe Bay in north Florida from the Old Salt Works Cabins in Cape San Blas toward Blacks Island and the heart of the bay on a cloudy summers afternoon. This was during the scalloping season and St. Joe Bay is known as a prime destination.

Sea oats help keep the dunes in place at St. Joseph Peninsula State Park in the panhandle of Florida. This park has some of the largest dunes in the state.

This is the Cape San Blas shoreline near the lighthouse in the panhandle of Florida. Located in Gulf County, it is on the road from the city of Port St. Joe on the way to St. Joseph Peninsula State Park, home of the largest dunes in the state of Florida and a favorite scalloping destination.

On a beautiful morning a canoe enters the narrows above Lettuce Lake in the Hillsborough River to go up river towards Campers creek. They were seen from the boardwalk in Tampa, Florida's Lettuce lake Park as they wended their way northward.

This is part of the Hillsborough River in Tampa, Florida's Morris Bridge park. This is upriver from Morris Bridge toward Flint Creek Park.

Tussocks of grass in a pasture in one of Florida's main cattle counties, Okeechobee. This is located north of Lake Okeechobee.

Lake Rousseau looking south from the Emerald Cove RV Resort in Levy County, Florida.

Lake Rousseau is a 3,567 acre man made lake created when they dammed the Withlacoochee River trying to create the Cross-Florida Barge Canal. It is in west central Florida, bounded by Levy County to the northwest, Marion County to the northeast, and Citrus County to the south.

In 1963 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service established the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge on part of the unused 140,000 acres of the Kennedy Space Center adjacent to Cape Canavera.l In 1975 they established the Canaveral National Seashore.

Today the Department of the Interior manages most of the unused parts of the Kennedy Space Center as a National Wildlife Refuge and Seashore.

Previously used for cattle grazing, hunting and fishing, Lettuce Lake Park opened in 1982. The 240 acre park in Hillsborough County, Florida has well over one million visitors annually.

More that half lies in the natural floodplain of the Hillsborough River consisting of a hardwood swamp forest. The rest of the park is made up of hardwood hammocks and pine flatwoods.

The Hillsborough River in Tampa, Floridea's Lettuce lake Park where it narrows abouve the lake.

The hill country of west Texas along the Mexican border.