I was hiking along the Gunpowder River with my brother, not too far from Kingsville Maryland, when we came across this sign.
According to my calculations, that makes it almost 100 times larger than the 670 square miles that make up Lake Okeechobee.
Okeechobee’s upstream watershed is 6 times larger than the area of the lake.
But the funny thing is, when you look out at Lake Okeechobee – it looks like a sea. When you do the same to the Chesapeake, it looks exactly like its name says it is: a bay.That goes to show:
When it comes to big waters, don’t always believe what you see – there’s often more than meets the eye ...
Or do I mean “less?”
3 comments:
I love to read your blog, it's really interesting the way you present your journal and you take really nice pictures. I'd love to visit your pretty country one day and I think that you have the best job in the world.
One oyster at 50 gallons filtering a day could help the problem with compromised land drainage...we are working on it under our small dock ;-)
Thanks Naomi. Some would say that Florida is a country unto itself ... it's definitely unique hydrologically from the other 49 states.
That's a great point Tabor. You know the zebra mussels -- a reviled non-native -- cleaned up the water quality of the Hudson River.
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