And that brings us up to today, which I spent hiking at Leon Sinks. It's an incredible trail that winds around all of these sinks -- sinkholes in the earth that descend to Tallahassee's deep underwater caves. This picture, which I borrowed from another member of the hiking group, is of my favorite sink, Hammock Sink.
Some of the sinks are black with tannins, while others, like Hammock Sink, have an amazing gradation of greens and blues.
You can't see the colors too well in my picture.
But check out this one -- another borrowed shot from a fellow hiking club member.
So some of the sinks are not as impressive.
Behold the Tiny Sink.
But this is the biggest one, the Big Dismal. It goes down to a depth of 130 feet and is inhabited by pale, blind cave crayfish.
At some points the sinks extend into a little stream before they vanish back into the earth. You can tell where the spring entrance is by the swirling of the foam.
The trail goes through a little cypress swamp.
With one monstrous four-trunked tree rising from the black water.
Also, Leon Sinks has some of the best fungus I've ever seen. Incredible shelf fungus.
And it was everywhere! Look at this log with its ombre ruffles.
Tallahassee has this weird pink lichen, and this is some of the pinkest.
Lovely patterns on these scalloped fungi.
Strange little puffballs.
And rosettes of fungus that looked like carved malachite.
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