This morning a few members from the newly formed South Florida National Parks Camera Club took an early morning bike ride down Snake Bight trail in Everglades National Park. The goal was to capture a sunrise over Florida Bay. We left Homestead around 4:30 and arrived at the trial head around 5:30. The trail is only about 2 miles long but at night in the dark it is much harder to traverse. On this trip it was even harder than we anticipated due to the lack of maintenance and how overgrown the trail was. In fact one of the members of our party encountered a fallen log that was not visible due to the high grass and fell off his bike. No one was seriously hurt but he was definitely sore the rest of the day.
Eventually we made the Snake Bight boardwalk just at prime light. I managed to capture a few images before the rest of the guys caught their breath and got their camera equipment set up. As a result I was able to capture an image of the empty boardwalk and use it as a leading line toward the rising glow of the sun. I was happy with the composition and colors in this image and will likely add it to my website collection.
