The plantation's newest trail sports high quality signage and an excellent example of this natural phenomena.
The vernal pool area shown above was completely dry in late summer and looked like this:
According to www.vernalpool.org,
A vernal pool is a contained basin depression lacking a permanent above ground outlet. In the Northeast, it fills with water with the rising water table of fall and winter or with the meltwater and runoff of winter and spring snow and rain. Many vernal pools in the Northeast are covered with ice in the winter months. They contain water for a few months in the spring and early summer. By late summer, a vernal pool is generally (but not always) dry.
