Sawgrass Lake Park

Location of field trip: Sawgrass lake park. 
Weather: It was around 82 degrees outside with a breeze and about 50% cloud coverage.

 While visiting  the park, we learned that they found arsenic and lead in the water from a gun range near the park. The park was to go through a remediation, they planted new plants and tagged them. Also, there is now a barrier up around the gun range. While walking on the trail we saw a variety of plants and animals from the time we first walked in, to the time we left to go home. They had signs everywhere telling people not to feed the animals or molest the alligators. We saw a couple baby gators, but not a full sized one, which i thought was a little strange.

                                             A snake we saw by the picnic table upon arriving.

This is one of the many baby gators we saw on the field trip. We named the little fella Franklin.

 They had an outlook tower that you could view the park from high up. Above is the view of the lake from the second story of the out look tower.

                              Here is another photo taken from the outlook tower, its overlooking the trail.

They had a sign up, informing visitors about the restoration processes and what all was going to be done to the park.

-Morgan Swem