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Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park Photos

A historic CCC bathhouse. It is a wooden and stone structure with stone stairs and a wooden handrail leading up to it. Stone picnic tables overlooking the lake. There are two tables with grills next to them and a canopy of trees overhead. Several stone picnic tables with a brown pavilion visible in the background. There are various trees surrounding the structures.
Historic CCC Bathhouse Historic Picnic Tables Pavilions
Canoes located on the shore of Little Lake Johnson. There are ten silver canoes lined up in a row on the beach. A tortoise the size of a dinner plate is making his way back to the underground burrow in which he lives. His shell is divided into sections which are ringed. The kitchen in a block cabin. It contains a silver sink, a white refrigerator, a stove and light brown, wooden cabinets.
Canoes on Beach Gopher Tortoise Kitchen in Block Cabin
A campsite with a cream colored motor home in it. It is surrounded by various trees and has a wooden picnic table in the front. A double bed located inside one of the cabins. There are white sheets on the bed and there is a wooded dresser next to it. A scenic area in the park. It is a field with rolling hills. There are several trees and a stone picnic table in the background.
Campsite Double Bed Beautiful Scenery
A rocking chair located within one of the cabins. It is a wooden rocking chair. There is a window and a table in the background. A bathroom in one of the cabins. It has a toilet and sink. There is a shelf with towels and a checkered curtain on the window. The bridge crossing the ravine. There is green vegetation in the foreground and a large metal bridge in the background.
Dining Table and Rocking Chair Bathroom Bridge crossing Ravine
Small flying insect two inches long with large bulbous eyes, long thin body with folded wings. It is resting atop a leaf down in the ravine, with missing portions from the edges that some other insect has previously eaten. A small stream of water about six feet wide flows through the Ravine among heavy vegetation, including Cinnamon ferns, Virginia willow, and Needle palm. Grasses are growing up out of the waters at Sheeler Lake about ten feet from the shoreline. Time of day is dusk and there is a duplicate image of the grasses reflected in the relatively still waters.
Damselfly Gold Head Branch Reflected Grasses
Patterned butterfly with wings spread wide and a long thin tail is gathering nectar from a late summer flower blossom. Wooden cabin built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930’s, overlooks Little Lake Johnson. It is situated on a grassy lawn among large Live oaks with draping Spanish moss. Two female deer face toward the camera among thick sandhill vegetation.
Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly CCC Cabin White Tail Deer
Morning sunlight shines on a four petal flower with long stamens located on the banks of Little Lake Johnson. Patterned butterfly with wings spread wide and short pointy twin tail, sits atop the spherical blossom of the Button Bush. On the remote shoreline of Pebble Lake, a twisted Live oak bas on limb with the shape of a corkscrew.
Marsh Pink Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Twisting Live Oak Tree
After an evening thunderstorm, clouds are warmed by the setting sun. In the foreground are Longleaf pines at the edge of the photo. On Big Lake Johnson, the sun has just risen above the distant tree line and is duplicated on the surface waters of the lake. The lakes’ edge in the foreground has tall grasses growing in and around the water.  
Evening Sky Lake Sunrise  

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