Field Trip - Freshwater Area or Corkscrew Swamp

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 The field trip to the Corkscrew Swamp was fun. I learned a lot about how the place was made and what Fort Myers looked like before humans who wanted to bring tourism to the area and changed the waterway here. Before humans got here there was more animals than humans but after they arrived here and the homes of the animals were destroyed the amount of wildlife dissipated quickly. Now we are having to learn the hard way by having to restore the Everglades in order to bring the flow of the water back to the way it was.

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One of the things that had caught my attention was that Erica said that some of the Bald Cypresses in this place could be over 500 year old. We also saw one that one of the students pointed out and she said that it was probably 200 years old and it was pretty big. So I wondered how big a 500 year old one was.

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 Another thing that caught my eye was how at one part there was water with green leaves sitting on the top. I found out that it was in fact called water cabbage. It was the most interesting thing that I had seen in a long time. It covered the whole water. Apparently this is what hippo's eat, which I think is cool. I do not think that humans can eat it though, it does not look like something humans can eat.

Another thing that I liked was the observation tower. It was a nice overlook with lots of area from farther than one can see. Though it had started to sprinkle so it had become not as fun though and we all just wanted to go back already.