Author: Donald Reeves
Donald Reeves
Donald Reeves writes about Everglades City the way the place deserves to be written about: without the brochure language, without the manufactured wonder, and without pretending that a town of 400 people sitting at the edge of a swamp is something it is not.
THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER!
He has spent considerable time in Collier County's oldest settlement, arriving during stone crab season when the waterfront smells of brine and work, and returning in the off-season when the tourists are gone and the town goes quiet in the particular way that only genuinely remote places can. He has paddled the mangrove tunnels of the Ten Thousand Islands, eaten at places with no hours posted on the door, and spoken at length with fishing guides who navigate these waters by memory rather than chart.
His writing on Everglades City FL covers everything from tidal fishing conditions and kayak trails to lodging, local history, and the complex past that most Florida travel content carefully avoids.
He writes to give readers the honest version.
Bob Seger is not touring in 2026. He retired from live performance after completing the Travelin’ Man farewell tour on May 2, 2019 in Houston, Texas. No official Bob Seger concert dates exist for 2026, and no announcement of a return to touring has been made as of May 2026.Is Bob Seger Touring in 2026?Bob Seger is not touring in 2026. Songkick, Ticketmaster, and Live Nation list no scheduled Bob Seger concerts for 2026. His official website, bobseger.com, has not announced any upcoming shows. Fans searching for Bob Seger 2026 tour dates will find only tribute band performances, not shows…
The Saturday of the Seafood Festival, I stood on the waterfront at Everglades City and counted more people than I had seen in three previous visits combined. The smell of fried food had replaced the usual brine and boat fuel, and the noise from the vendor tents made conversation difficult. A man beside me was filming the bay on his phone and narrating quietly, describing the scene as remote and untouched. Venice and Barcelona have been talking about this problem for years, and the conversation has now arrived somewhere it was always going to arrive. The pressure has moved from…
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The ibis came in just after seven, a loose formation of maybe thirty birds dropping toward the flat between the mangrove edge and the open bay. The light was still low and gold, the water surface barely disturbed, and the smell coming off the mud was the particular low-tide smell of the Ten Thousand Islands, organic and mineral together, old in a way that has nothing to do with time as most people experience it. I was out with a guide who has been working these waters for over two decades. He watched the ibis land without comment, the way…
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The fishing guide I spoke with in March did not use the official name. Nobody out here did. He called it what everyone called it, and then he looked back toward the water and said that the Everglades had been used for things people did not want visible before, and that this was just the latest version of that arrangement. I had driven past the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport enough times to know the road. It sits deep in the Everglades, the kind of location that is chosen specifically because distance does the work that walls cannot always do.…
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