27px, we want 27. Please register or login . You'll also find here swampland of hardwoods or pine-titi mixtures and scattered small ponds of either open water or with covers of aquatic plants. A few stands of scrubby pond pine are sparsely intermingled with the titi. Heavy rainfall averages 55 inches per year, and the climate is subtropical.
Summers are hot and humid, but winter temperatures have been known to drop into the teens.
With few defined drainages, Bradwell Bay generally presents one to four inches of standing water in all the low areas. The water table lies very close to or above ground surface over most of this flat Wilderness. Drier islands of longleaf pine-wiregrass lie along some of the swamp's borderland. White-tailed deer, black bear and alligators top the food chain. The Sopchoppy River runs along the eastern edge of the area and is runable with canoes part of the year depending on rainfall.