From huge menacing alligators to tiny verbena flowers, with scuttling fiddler crabs and buffalo treehoppers along the way, Hog Bayou is nature at its finest.
Associated Press
June 29, 2021 / 01:57 PM IST
Hog Bayou is a winding ribbon of silver, its water moving slowly toward wetlands and from there into the Wax Lake Delta. (Image: AP)
Closer up, you can spot the head of a floating alligator, its length a hint of its size and age. Each inch (2.5 centimeters) between the nostrils and eye ridge indicates a foot (0.3 meters) in length, at least until a gator is about nine feet (three meters) long and its girth starts expanding. (Image: AP)
An osprey takes off from a treetop, probably hunting for fish. (Image: AP)
In between, you see a vine so strong that its embrace has created a deep spiral groove in a tree trunk. (Image: AP)
A small fiddler crab scuttling along a log. A female fiddler crab walks on algae-covered wood and rock, along the bank of Hog Bayou, part of the Wax Lake Delta system, in St Mary Parish, Lousiana .(Image: AP)
Spanish moss grows along Hog Bayou, in the Atchafalaya River Delta region, near St Mary Parish, La. (Image: AP)
A tiny green buffalo treehopper clinging, upside-down, to a leaf. (Image: AP)
A Brazilian verbena flower so small that dozens could fit on a quarter. (Image: AP)
A female broad-headed skink with a partially closed eyelid moves along the Hog Bayou. (Image: AP)
Tendrils of smilax grow along Hog Bayou, in the Atchafalaya River Delta region, in St Mary Parish, La. (Image: AP)
Marsh thistle grows along Hog Bayou, in the Atchafalaya River Delta region, near Franklin, La. (Image: AP)
A wild magnolia blossomed along Hog Bayou, part of the Wax Lake Delta system, in St Mary Parish, La., in St. Mary's Parish, La. (Image: AP)
Wild lantana grows along Hog Bayou, part of the Wax Lake Delta system, in St Mary Parish. (Image: AP)