Chas JP Dees Photography/Video Eco Tours of The Florida Everglades
" THE EVERGLADES, the river of grass "
"Ever so flat, at first the land appears to be an unpretentious expanse of grass. Upon closer inspection, it opens into an unusual world of exotic forest, tangled jungles, mysterious waterways, and the ever present floor of water visible through the fine cover of sawgrass. With an open mind, a delicate dimension of wildlife and bird life appears. It is a subtle beauty that awaits and presents itself slowly to the most sensitive at heart.
The Everglades is a timeless place where azure skies span to infinity, cerulean blue waters cover an undersea fantasy world, and exotic birds dwell in curious subtropical foliage. It is a primitive world into which you may step and allow your most primal self emerge. It is an environment where your senses revive. It is a rare opportunity for which your camera will become an essential time capturing device.
A Great White Heron, enveloped in the misty rays of the pale morning sun, wades and fishes in the shallow marsh water. Staring into the watery depths below, the heron suddenly plunges its head into the water and emerges with a small fish. For a moment the prize is held in its long beak, until the heron arches its head back, its neck shaped in an elegant S, and swallows the fish.
The Everglades deserves its place as one of the seven wonders of the world, for the subtle and magnificent beauty of this unique environment are found nowhere else on Earth. Deemed The River of Grass by the Seminole Indians hundreds of years ago, the Everglades in Southern Florida is a unique ecosystem created by a wide, shallow river, affected by the wet and dry seasons of a sub-tropical climate.
Wading through a pool of knee-high water, delicate epiphytes shower around you, and the dependable trunks of bald cypress trees stand quietly in the water with you. Tiny purple orchids balance in the branches. The water is black and warm. Beyond the cypress is an expanse of gold and green sawgrass with archipelago hammocks dotting the landscape and a flock of white egret playfully fluttering by.
From jungle-like hardwood hammocks, to pine and palmetto forests to the briny mangrove-lined lakes, the terrain and wildlife of the Everglades is vast and varied, offering exquisite light, scenery and subject matter found in few places.
It's early evening, just about the time the sun kisses the earth, and the sky celebrates with a profusion of oranges and reds with reflect in mirror image off of a pond. All is still except for the sudden emergence of two black eyes protruding from the water. Another set pops up, and soon three alligators smoothly glide over the water's glassy surface." described by - Ms. M. Hudson -
"Ever so flat, at first the land appears to be an unpretentious expanse of grass. Upon closer inspection, it opens into an unusual world of exotic forest, tangled jungles, mysterious waterways, and the ever present floor of water visible through the fine cover of sawgrass. With an open mind, a delicate dimension of wildlife and bird life appears. It is a subtle beauty that awaits and presents itself slowly to the most sensitive at heart.
The Everglades is a timeless place where azure skies span to infinity, cerulean blue waters cover an undersea fantasy world, and exotic birds dwell in curious subtropical foliage. It is a primitive world into which you may step and allow your most primal self emerge. It is an environment where your senses revive. It is a rare opportunity for which your camera will become an essential time capturing device.
A Great White Heron, enveloped in the misty rays of the pale morning sun, wades and fishes in the shallow marsh water. Staring into the watery depths below, the heron suddenly plunges its head into the water and emerges with a small fish. For a moment the prize is held in its long beak, until the heron arches its head back, its neck shaped in an elegant S, and swallows the fish.
The Everglades deserves its place as one of the seven wonders of the world, for the subtle and magnificent beauty of this unique environment are found nowhere else on Earth. Deemed The River of Grass by the Seminole Indians hundreds of years ago, the Everglades in Southern Florida is a unique ecosystem created by a wide, shallow river, affected by the wet and dry seasons of a sub-tropical climate.
Wading through a pool of knee-high water, delicate epiphytes shower around you, and the dependable trunks of bald cypress trees stand quietly in the water with you. Tiny purple orchids balance in the branches. The water is black and warm. Beyond the cypress is an expanse of gold and green sawgrass with archipelago hammocks dotting the landscape and a flock of white egret playfully fluttering by.
From jungle-like hardwood hammocks, to pine and palmetto forests to the briny mangrove-lined lakes, the terrain and wildlife of the Everglades is vast and varied, offering exquisite light, scenery and subject matter found in few places.
It's early evening, just about the time the sun kisses the earth, and the sky celebrates with a profusion of oranges and reds with reflect in mirror image off of a pond. All is still except for the sudden emergence of two black eyes protruding from the water. Another set pops up, and soon three alligators smoothly glide over the water's glassy surface." described by - Ms. M. Hudson -