Re: Watch'n for Wildlife.
Sounds like the weekend the wife and I had teo weeks ago. We packed a picnic lunch, the fresh water ultralights and the dawg, and headed 55miles south to the southern edge of the Everglades. I was born and raised in Miami, spent nearly every weekend of any memeories, at my aunt's camp off Turner river Grade, It's been 36years since my last visit to Turner River Grade, and much has changed. For one, there are only a handfull of homes out there, where it used to be camps every 500feet. The government bought-out much of the land, and it's now inside a preserve. The other differnce that struck me, (besides the lack of swamp buggies and camps, was the wildlife. There were gators EVERYWHERE! N/S, it looked like one of those Jungle-Larry Safari tourist traps, there were so many. We were literaly concerned about latting our mini pin out of the truck for a mini pee, for fear of her becomming a snack.<br />And the manatees down here are getting so common, they are hard to avoid striking at idle speed.<br />It's great to have the critters back! If there is one thing good to say about hippies, this is it. They spearheaded the "Earth Day" stuff, and absolutely got in the face of the government about it. And they suceeded I think..