Swamp sights in North America

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   Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve

   • Fort Myers, USA
   • Sights › Swamp

   A 2000-acre woodland and wetland, or slough (pronounced 'slew'), this park is a great, easily accessible place to experience southwest Florida's flora and fauna. A 1.2-mile boardwalk trail is staffed by volunteers who help point out and explain the epiphytes, cypress knees, migrating birds, turtles and nesting alligators you'll find. Wildlife watchers should target the winter dry season, when animals concentrate around smaller ponds. However, the wet summer season is also dramatic: at its peak, the entire slough becomes a forested stream up to 3ft deep. The small nature center has excellent displays; from December to April, free guided walks are 9:30am and 1:30pm daily.

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