Utricularia and Ludwigia adscandens Utricularia is a genus of carnivorous plant. If you look closely, you can also see a Nymphaea capensis seedling.	Utricularia prehensalis flower	Utricularia prehensalis growing on peat. This plant is very abundant in the swamp.
Trying to recover Retief's sandal The mud here was deep and clayey. Retief lost his sandle and couldn't find it, so I did.	Very, very deep water  How do we know? Both Ina and I sank in deep were there appeared to be only shallow water. Figure the bottom is three metres down in places. The pH metre was completely soaked and we had to exit the swamp to dry it. Only, we were about as far as it was possible to be from the vehicle	Nice if you tell me next time Plants in the backround are Scleria poiformis. Prof. George took the picture without telling us.
Really hard going This shows what appears to be the only patch of Typha capensis in this part of the swamp. The going was very hard with relatively deep water. The really deep water is in this patch.	Froggy - well toady really in the pond at Wetlands Guesthouse.	Pond at Wetlands Guesthouse in St. Lucia The guesthouse we stayed at in St. Lucia had this small pond - full of invasive weeds. Interesting connections here. My supervisor Prof. Bredenkamp knows the owners from when they lived across the road from him in Pretoria. I went to school with their son in Grahamstown, my hometown.