In search of Alapaha’s end –Bret Wagenhorst

a last minute Labor Day trip down the Alapaha in search of where it goes under ground or dries up

: 960×720 canopy road near Jennings Bluff, FL, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 300×225 small parking area at the top of Jennings Bluff, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 300×400 on site greeter, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 300×400 steps down to the water, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 300×225 put in, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 as always the reflections off the tannin stained waters were beautiful, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 another of our on-site greeters: Ms. Katydid, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 orange paddles, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 karst and wood, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 720×960 cypress with knees, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 on the water, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 we kept seeing these pits in the sandy bottom, and conjured up all sorts of fantastical explanations for them until we finally saw a bream bedding down in one and realized what they were, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 symmetric, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 the river got very shallow in places, requiring wading through the green slime, sand and stone, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 turtle camouflaged by all the algae on its shell, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 low on the side, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 720×960 a spring drained out of the woods into the river, adding its clear, chilly water and purling sound, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 toward the end, the water got so shallow weeds were growing midstream in places, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 very narrow, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 bream beds were everywhere, suggesting a healthy bream population, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 a little wider, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

: 960×720 exposed bream beds near where we turned back; never did find where the water ended, in Alapaha, by Bret Wagenhorst, for WWALS.net, 1 September 2014, https://www.facebook.com/bret.wagenhorst/media_set?set=a.10204852430689710.1073741830.1207470067&type=1

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