An informational nature center with an observation tower is also available. For more information, please visit the West Lake Park and Anne Kolb Nature Center website . Come climb the nature center's five-story observation tower with us and take a walk along the interpretive nature trails . A photo gallery is available for this page. Typically, red mangroves grow along the water's edge, black mangroves grow on slightly higher elevations than the red mangrove and white mangroves grow upland from the red and black.
Mangroves grow in flooded saltwater areas and are salt tolerant.
A power plant can be seen on the horizon. Fiddler crabs dig burrows for protection from predators and incoming tidal waters. If you look closely, you can see some fiddlers walking on the mud. At both low and high tide, fiddler crabs come out of their burrows in search of food. They eat by picking up sediment with their claw and scraping food materials such as decaying plant matter from the sediment.