Discovering the Ancient Cypress Forest of Caddo Lake, Texas

There are places where the ordinary rules don’t quite apply—where time slows, light shifts, and reality feels thin enough to see through. Caddo Lake, one of Texas’s few naturally occurring lakes and home to the largest cypress forest in the world, is one of those places. Drift through ancient channels beneath Spanish moss and towering cypress as the swamp transforms from golden hour to blue hour—revealing amber water, monochrome mystery, and a quiet, otherworldly beauty that feels like a portal to wonder.