After the noon halt, the caravan continued over soft, wet, but level prairie for almost five miles.

First of all, it's not a swamp; it's a wet prairie.

The wet prairie is located close to the water's edge and contains plants well suited to a marsh setting.

On the western side, they intergrade with wet prairies, an ecosystem type that was once vast, and now has been all but eliminated.

Early settlers to the area described this land as being a prairie or wet prairie.

Hiking trails 16 miles (26 km), some of which pass not only the sand dunes, but historic structures and wet prairie.

An hour or two before dawn the rain stopped, and soon a bright sun shone above the wet prairie.

The forest is riddled with slow-moving rivers and wet "prairies".

In wet prairie, the soil is usually very moist most of the growing season and has poor water drainage.

They are usually found on gentle slopes just above swamps, marshes or wet prairies.