I managed to find a couple of relatively impressive cypress trees on my latest trip to Florida. We found the first one while paddling our canoe down the spring run at Manatee Springs State Park. This was a few days before the record-setting flood waters on the Suwanee River hit the park and shut it down. Everything was normal when we first got there and we were able to put the canoe in before the flood waters got bad.
I suspect this tree was hollow, as it was so much larger than any other tree around. But I'm not sure. We had to beach the canoe and I got out so that my wife could snap this photo: <table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http:// picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/pLDTTZuoRmg8Rb2V7oGh8Q? authkey=Gv1sRgCIPm4cXWo_ruzgE&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http:// lh5.ggpht.com/_AG0NMLjCoX4/SeOvPa9EalI/AAAAAAAAELw/rRA0pv-HehM/s144/ Tree005.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans- serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="http:// picasaweb.google.com/jamesrobertsmith100/TilTheLastHemlockDies04? authkey=Gv1sRgCIPm4cXWo_ruzgE&feat=embedwebsite">Til the Last Hemlock Dies</a></td></tr></table> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
