APALACHICOLA, FL-The Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve (ANERR) oversees 246,000 acres along Florida’s northern Gulf Coast. Hiking opportunities exist throughout the Reserve which encompasses coastal barrier islands, fresh and saltwater marshes, bottomland hardwood swamp, pine flatwoods and oak hammocks.
A microcosm of the ecosystems found in Franklin County can be experienced at the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve Nature Center located in Eastpoint. ANERR has 1,600 feet or nearly 1/3 of a mile of newly built raised wooden boardwalks that traverse the Reserve’s 28 acres plus another 400 feet of trails. Visitors can experience a coastal hammock shaded by live oak and magnolia trees, a slash pines forest that opens up in to a freshwater marsh and circles through slash pines. Commonbirds and animals encountered include ospreys, eagles, box turtles, skinks and even an occasional black bear. The southern section of the boardwalk ends overlooking Apalachicola Bay where visitors can use a powerful scenic telescope to see across the bay, or just relax and watch local oysterman bring in their daily catch.
The boardwalk was funded by the Friends of the Apalachicola Reserve. Visitors to the ANERR boardwalk will see a series of twelve quotes along the trail from noted authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. The quotes serve as momentary inspiration to help visitors connect with the nature that surrounds them. For additional information contact the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve at (850) 670-7700.
List of the quotes visitors will find on boardwalk:
1. "If you are not awake to the possibilities, you will not see them. Nature does not reveal herself to the negligent." Robert Henri
2. “One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?” Rachel Carson
3. “There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature ~ the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.” Rachel Carson
5. "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." Rabindranath Tagore
6. “A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it. ”Henry David Thoreau
7. “Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
8. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” William Shakespeare
9. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein
11. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the great grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time”. John Lubbock
12. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” Albert Einstein
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