Trailing its tow-line, a glider tow plane comes in for a landing at the Seminole-Lake Gliderport near Clermont, Florida. These powerful little planes are used to pull the gliders up to their release altitude so that they can begin their journey on the thermal updrafts, much like a hawk or eagle.

A glider coming in for a landing at the Seminole-Lake Gliderport in central Florida near Clermont and Orlando. Gliders or "sailplanes," are designed to fly with no engines after reaching their cruising altitude. An experienced pilot can remain aloft for hours and hundreds of miles.

Almost ready to be released from the tow plane, this glider has been towed to altitude by one of the tow planes at the Seminole-Lake Gliderport in Clermont, Florida. The adventure begins.

The shrimp boat the Russell Lee on an early Sunday morning on the Anclote River in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

Early 1900 period boat in the intercoastal waterway behind Guptill House at Spanish Point, Florida.

The Mobile Bay ferry service operates between Ft. Morgan on the eastern shore of the bay and Dauphin Island on the western side of the bay. The ferry is pictured here arriving at the Ft. Morgan landing.

This is a 1932 Studebaker beside the road where US Route 66 used to cross the Petrified Forest National Park.

This is part of the fleet of fishing boats in Bayou La Batre, the seafood capitol of Alabama. Bayou La Batre is located in south Alabama on the Mississippi Sound.

The Mobile Bay ferry service operates between Ft. Morgan on the eastern shore of the bay and Dauphin Island on the western side of the bay. The ferry is pictured here arriving at the Ft. Morgan landing.

This is a 1932 Studebaker beside the road where US Route 66 used to cross the Petrified Forest National Park.

This is part of the fleet of fishing boats in Bayou La Batre, the seafood capitol of Alabama. Bayou La Batre is located in south Alabama on the Mississippi Sound.

The commercial fishing boat "Rollin' Stone" docked on the Carabelle River in Carabelle, Florida.