Browsing: Everglades Travel Guides

Terry cut the engine somewhere east of the buttonwood line and in the silence that came after, which is a silence that takes about three seconds to arrive

A woman at the marina in Everglades City, someone I had talked to on several visits without learning her name, told me once that most people who drive down

I knew I had made a wrong turn somewhere in the previous forty minutes, but the channels in the Ten Thousand Islands do not announce errors. They simply co

The airboat captain had a microphone and a script and he used both with the confidence of someone who had said the same sentences several hundred times and

The first alligator I saw from the car was not doing anything. That is almost always how it is. People expect drama from alligators and the animals decline

The first thing I noticed was the concrete. Not dramatically — it was not an aggressive pour, not the kind of infrastructure that announces itself — but it

Bobby Tigertail — and that is not his real name, which he told me himself before I could ask — has been running airboats out of the same slip for twenty-th

Three Days Is Not Enough for One of These Places A man at the boat launch in Everglades City asked me once how long I was staying, and when I told him four

What the Wait Is Actually For I arrived at Joanie’s on a Saturday in October at half past eleven, which I knew from previous experience was already too lat

What the Water Knows The couple had been on the water for four hours when I saw them come in, and I could read the trip in their posture before they had fi