Let's play Spot the Alligator

 Above: There is an alligator in this picture. Can you see him? He kind of just looks like a truck tire tossed into the bushes. Actually, someone told us that it's hatching season, so there were baby gators around, but they were all hiding from the herons.

 

A fairy path into the swamp.

 Spanish moss. I thought there was a lot in New Orleans, but there's a ton out here.

Doesn't this look like a Berkeley garden spider? She was huge, and some others we saw were even bigger. We took these from the boardwalk that goes through the swampy bits. It's the dry season, though, so things weren't as squishy as we expected.