Chuck Bryant

Hi, everyone.

I hope you're enjoying your Saturday morning and your weekend so far.

And I hope this episode makes it a little bit better because it's about one of my favorite trees, the mangrove.

I discovered mangroves in person when I went to coastal Mexico for the first time.

And I tell you what, I fell in love with these things.

They are amazing.

Mangroves, nature's best tree.

My new favorite tree.

It is, and this is one of those, I think this is the second and probably final that was inspired by my recent trip to Mexico because we were surrounded by mangroves, literally surrounded by mangroves, and we couldn't get enough of them, man, like riding the bikes around and looking in these mangrove forests and considering what it must be like to try and navigate through them.

nearly impossible, I would say.

Uh, cause yeah, I mean, you've seen them in person, I'm sure like just how dense these things are.

Uh, and you know, we're gonna be talking about different kinds, but really sort of the money mangroves are the ones that we're going to focus on.

And they are just, I was knocked out just by how they looked and I could tell that they were a remarkable wonder of nature and evolution.

And then after this stuff, uh, Dave Ruse helped us put this together after learning, uh,

everything that they're capable of.

It's just like, what kind of tree is this?

It's amazing.

Yeah.

But like I said, we're talking mainly about those amazing trees that sit up above the water with this network of mangroves.

you know, look like fingers just sort of propping up the tree, which are the roots.