Palms at Piney Island

These photos feature palms on Piney Island. The Island is mostly salt marsh with a few clumps of trees along the eastern shoreline of Apalachee Bay, between Spring Creek and Panacea. It is in the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge and only accessible by boat. I went with David Moynahan last month in his do-everything (photography, kayak and camp) john boat. To view David's photos of the day, go his post for February 23, 2011 at http://davidmoynahan.blogspot.com/.

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Here are two photos of my favorite cabage tree of the entire island.




These three tall palms lead my attention to the open Gulf where often I go for perspective. Here, I can almost feel the curverture of the earth. We are but a small part of the whole