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Friday, May 11, 2012

Backyard Bayou

I just returned from southern Illinois
and found a very interesting place.

A cypress swamp.


 Yep, a swamp reminiscent of a Louisiana bayou,
but in the Midwest.


Its Heron Pond in the Cache River State Natural Area.

It is in a floodplain carved years ago by the glacial 
floodwater of the Ohio River.
There are cypress trees that are hundreds of years old.

And a few are even older than 1000 years 
such as this ancient one.
A must see if you are in southern Illinois.

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