HI Tom:
I'm a SwampDonkey, but I prefer
cedar and mixed hardwood swamps with mossy forest floor. Just wish the darn squeeters and knats would find someone else to bite.
I've always enjoyed video footage and photography of Florida though, especially the birds and plant life. Don't like snakes and gators though, simply because of their teeth , not because their ugly
I've only been to Florida once: Orlando, Cape Canaveral, Tampa. Its been 20 years this February.
Do you hunt white-tails? Its mostly buck only hunting here, with antlerless draws. I'm not a deer hunter myself. Grandfather was a guide outfitter with several camps for over 60 years. I have a photo of one of his harvests, but I don't think everyone wants to see that
White-tail numbers have declined because of lost old growth coniferous forest, which they seek in winter for thermal cover. Most of our deer populations winter near settlement unless someone is cutting a white cedar swamp or hardwoods which are upslope of coniferous stands in valleys and gullies which face southward. They like the tops...mmm yummy yummy
Nictau Lake, the head of the Little Tobique R. (left-hand branch) in Mount Carleton Provincial Park. Photo taken on top of Mount Shagamook. Lots of Indian names around here. This area is the source of 4 major rivers in New Brunswick: Restigouch (empties into the Bay of Chaleur to the Northwest), Nepisiquit (empties into the Bay of Chaleur to the North), Miramichi (empties into the Northumberland Straight to the East), and the Tobique (flowing southwest into the Saint John R. and finally south into the Bay of Funday). All well known Atlantic Salmon Rivers for guide outfitters. The Nepisiquit and Tobique are no longer though because of hydro electric power dams since the 1950's
That's progress.
regards
