Further into the swamp vegetation gets dense, and you canoe in narrow channels. The park rangers have marked some of these. In unmarked areas you better know exactly where you are, and how you got there. An air plant, growing withou contact with the ground. It collects rainwater funnel it with the leaves, to the middle of the plant.
Hammocks are patches of elevated dry land enclosed by the swamp.
A dense tropical forest grows here. Florida bay Everglades NP covers a large part of Florida bay. In the outer parts vast areas of shallow sea is occationally broken by windbeaten low islands. Birds at Sandy key. Shoals outside Carl Ross key.