The baby in the park, a two-year-old, stayed close to his mom in the river but was rambunctious enough that the park guides have nicknamed him Naughty Baby.
"People come up here to get away from it all, not feel like they are back in the city," Zion National Park guide Bill Dunn told the Wall Street Journal, referring to a "big and unsightly" private home recently built on an inholding in the park, overtaking an "iconic canyon view".
After a second book, Wetlands (1990), with David Bellamy and Brendan Quayle, came an official national park guide to the Norfolk Broads (2002) and then A Period Eye (2003), which he edited and partly wrote for Norfolk Museums.
To experience the most scenic of the park's non-aquatic attractions, I joined park guide Brent Little for a leisurely stroll.
The site also includes excerpts from The Encyclopedia of New York City about the park, a guide to statues, and movies and television programs filmed in the park.
On a media tour of the park, a guide spoke of townhouses bordering parkland, with a "similar feel to what you might see in Regent's Park".
What will we do when we have no more forest and there's no longer enough rain to water our rice?" asks a national park guide who has come up against the illegal loggers.
To explore the national park, visitors must travel with a licensed park guide.
