rebonnett: Thunder storms threatened but moved on.
rebonnett: Yellow Bellied Pond Slider, . . before he slid.
rebonnett: Prothonatary Warblers are the Robins of southern swamps
rebonnett: The sun would break through on occasion to illuminate the dark places of the swamp.
rebonnett: Swamp Canoing Short
rebonnett: Carpet of Duckweed covers 4' deep blackwater
rebonnett: Penny Royal reflection
rebonnett: Fence Lizard at my camp.
rebonnett: Mountain Stewartia
rebonnett: 5 Lined Skink and Virginia Creeper Vine.
rebonnett: This was his ambush perch.
rebonnett: Then you have to feel your way to another open lead.
rebonnett: I had no intentention of handling him.
rebonnett: Cottonmouth in dappled sunlight.
rebonnett: He let me into macro-range. This is not zoomed or cropped.
rebonnett: Creek reflections
rebonnett: The magic of reflections helps one with their reflections.
rebonnett: A Stinkpot, he became my paddling partner for a while.
rebonnett: This one took off. It was a good 40" long.
rebonnett: He stopped to check me out so I did the same.
rebonnett: Cottonmouth set among reflections. Checkin me out!
rebonnett: Cottonmouth
rebonnett: I felt like I was being watched all day.
rebonnett: She has young nearby she needs to return too.
rebonnett: Yellow Bellied hatchling sunning on Spatterdock root
rebonnett: On the way back to camp.
rebonnett: In case you forgot what I look like. GPS stop, not quite lost, just confused.
rebonnett: They like to sing from floating mats of vegetation (duckweed).
rebonnett: Natural habitat shot