ECHO ( Educational Concerns For Hunger Organization)

        Being a Christian or “a follower of Christ” I was so thrilled with this field trip!  ECHO is a non-profit, non denominational Christian organization that simply wants to glorify God by helping poor countries learn self- sustainability.  There are student interns that come here for a year to learn specific ideas using plants and animals that already exist in a particular area to survive

 These Interns share what they have learned to help others exist in the most difficult areas of the world.  There are too many photos for me to describe each and everyone but everything you see is part of the circle of life or a part of the food chain.  Each animal and plant work together to maintain balance in that circle.   

I wonder why we live in such a fruit filled area, yet so many people have no access to it!

Matanzas Pass Totally awesome!!!

 The roots are hanging above the ground! Some go down into it providing breeding

 grounds for many of the animals like Snook and Shrimp.

 I love Trees.  When I had the time to draw, I drew Trees.  I even wrote a story

about a tree once.       I have many photographs of trees.  Weird huh?

 I am working on memory since I didn't bring anything but a camera so forgive me for not remembering the teachers name,  I do recall him telling us that this was a very old and dead pine tree.  Great for starting fires when fire is what you want,  that is when you want a fire.  It is a hazard in a protected area if it does catch fire.

 This is the bay you can see through the trees.

 Mosquito ditches dug to control mosquitos.

 Mosquitos as the circle of life, Mosquito bites man, fish eats mosqito,

 man eats fish that ate the mosquito that bit man. 

 From what I recall this is more than one type of tree.

I just thought it was neat looking.

 Sail boats on the bay.  Later there was a dolphin swimming right out there.

 If you are in to sunrises, this is were it happens in the mornings here!

 Trying to get a picture of a nice house in the distance.  Oh well.

These are some of my classmates and one of the girls that assists on these trips.

 You can's see them real well but there are oyster beds here.

 I quit listening when they started talking about oysters filtering the water.  I love to eat them so...

 Beautiful picture of the walk way.  Sea Grape plants to the left and right.

 A birds nest

 The stump of an Austrailian Pine removed from the preserve. 

Austrailian Pines are not native to Florida and not a healthy additive to the envirnment.

SEA GRAPE JELLY.  YUM!