Soomaa National Park is famous for its peat bogs and is about 40 KM NW of Parnu. It was established in 1993 to preserve the large marshes, flood plains, meadows and forests. It floods every year as the snow melts. The most significant peat bog is Kuresoo with its steep southern slope rising up to 8m in some sections. Kuresoo is 110 square km in area. We walked around an area of lakes - the peat grows yearly, just like a baking cake and cracks on the top. The cracks fill with the water and appear as lakes. The lakes are 2m of water and up to 7m of wet peat underneath. The bog only grows one type of pine that tolerates the wet conditions and it is very stunted, otherwise just lots of different mosses, a few grasses and sundews, etc.
Day 2 we paddled through some of the streams. No crocs and the mossies weren't that bad either.
