This is a photo of a hammock taken on the Adam’s ranch that spans three counties in South Florida. The specific location isn’t named. This photo is from ‘A Cattleman’s Backcounty Florida’ by Alto Adams, Jr.This is a beautiful coffee[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Blue Springs near Orange City. If you look close, you”ll spot a set of ladies walking along the water’s edge. Lawyers have curtailed such activities by the springs these days. The postcard is postmarked from 105 years ago, February[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a brochure for Rainbow Springs in Marion County, before it became a state park. This brochure is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
An acrobatic sideshow for folks in Jacksonville in 1905. This photo is from ‘Pictorial History of Florida’. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here or below: https://amzn.to/2K2eM8R This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida library.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Great egrets in the Everglades. This from ‘Everglades: Wondrous River of Life’ by Steve Walker. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/2BWje6N
Swampy’s friend Susan Green is at the Wakulla Springs Lodge and took this photo of the tour boat taking off into the river for one of it’s fantastic trips earlier today. She and her husband were fortunate to take the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This watercolor painting by Swampy’s Rob Smith, Jr. will be in the silent auction at the Marion County Springs Festival tomorrow, Saturday the 24th, at Rainbow Springs State Park. The educational and music filled event runs from 10am to 4pm.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy travels all of Florida. Here he visits a location revealed at the end of the short video. Can you figure out where he is before the end of the video?
One of the Great books once produced by Great Outdoors Publishing. This short and concise 28 pages came out in 1980. It was written and with very nice illustrations by Francis Wyly Hall.
A young lady and a baby gator! this 1896 is not an unusual site as tourists visiting Florida saw these little fellows as not much different than a lizard. They would buy them and carry them around in a cigar[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rob Smith, Jr. is adding the above just finished painting to the available print collection for Swampy’s Florida. Look for a tab above soon to get your print of ‘Critter Camp Out’.