A photo story

A pond at Long Pine Key

I stood at the edge of a pine-lined pond in the Long Pine Key area of Everglades National Park, in January 2026. Dry grass and a sandy bank run down to still water, and the pines on the far shore are reflected clearly, with a few pink clouds in a blue evening sky. It was evening, around 63, with almost no wind.

Long Pine Key is a pineland in the southern part of the park, a slightly higher, drier stretch of slash pine around small ponds like this one. I took this from the bank at dusk, looking across the water toward the trees.