Photographic Essay
of
Safety Harbor, Gandy Bridge, Saint Petersburg, and Port Tampa Quadrangles
Manatee River, Florida

The photographic essay focuses Weedon Island, Tampa Bay, Florida (Figure 3.1).  Photographs of selected wetland and upland locations are prints and digital camera images taken by the WETMAAP Development Team, January 6, 2003 (Figure 3.2).

The photographic essay is for use with a series of aerial photographs, topographic maps, wetland and upland habitat maps, and selected materials that assist in the identification of changes of wetland and upland habitats and changes in seagrasses in Tampa Bay.

The photographic essay identifies habitat changes within the area resulting from urban, commercial, and industrial development. Emphasis is on comparing ground level photography with maps and aerial photography aids in wetland and upland interpretation for the area.  The essay shows representative examples of saltwater emergent wetlands, forested wetland, wetland scrub-shrub, flats and beaches, upland forest, and urban, and seagrasses.

Figure 1: Proximal Location
The Safety Harbor, Gandy Bridge, Saint Petersburg, and Port Tampa Quadrangles

Figure 2: Weedon Island Photo Essay
Ground Photograph Locations With Line- of- Sight

Plate numbers correspond with circled numbers on the reduced section (Weedon Island site) of the Safety Harbor, Gandy Bridge, Saint Petersburg, and Port Tampa quadrangles. Arrows indicate directions of line-of-sight.