On a very hot and humid day in August of 2020, we hiked the 4-mile Bay Trail at Jones Lake State Park. The very flat trail is a loop around 224-acre Jones Lake, one of the two carolina bays in the park, the other being Salters Lake.
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| a glimpse of the dense pocosin wetlands that border much of the lake |
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| a view of Jones Lake from a gap in the forest, along the trail |
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| an eastern fence lizard |
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| the fallen flower from a loblolly bay, a beautiful wetland tree common in pocosins) |
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| a pine stand in the adjacent uplands near the lake |
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| an american toad |
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| along Bay Trail |
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| along Bay Trail |
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| a rough green snake |
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