Going to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary was a very intersesting and enlightening experience. It is always a pleasure to find out about things that happened in history in my local environment; I got a lot out of it. It made me envision the around the time period of ‘A Land Remembered’, and what the MacIvey family had to walk though to get the other side of the state of Florida.
Even before walking across the boardwalk I gained more of an understanding of the history about Southwest Florida area. Women’s fashion during that early time period led to the land being protected if you think about it, the amount of plume birds that were killed led to people taking interest in the area and led to the birds being protected.
I especially enjoyed my time when we entered the Cypress swamp and began to gaze at the huge Bald Cypress Trees. To think these trees have been there more than 500 hundred years and if all goes well and we continue to improve the way we treat the environment they shall be there for many years to come.
The Anhinga bird was the most amazing thing that I have ever seen in my life! It was sitting perched up in a tree and with its wings opened slight spanned. Out of nowhere it dive under the water to catch its lunch, it was the most beautiful thing in the world. It could have come out of a movie!
Another cool thing about the Corkscrew Swamp was as we were leaving I got to witness a mother Alligator and her twenty babies gators sun bathing. It was an experience I will never forget , that I will hopefully tell my children about.
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