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Published: January 14th 2012
Today I explored Myakka River in earnest.
The park shelters a now rare landscape called a dry prairie , the same ecosystem found in parts of Okefenokee Swamp (see Golden Swamps).
During the dry season, it’s a traditional prairie with seas of high grass.
The rest of the year it floods and becomes a swamp.
Within the grass are groups of trees called hammocks.
These also flood in heavy rain.
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