Browsing: Everglades Wildlife & Ecology

The first time I came to Everglades City in June I stepped out of the car and thought something had died nearby. That is not a poetic exaggeration. The sme

The spoonbill was standing in about four inches of water off the western edge of Chokoloskee Bay, and I had been watching it for long enough that my coffee

Something Large Moving Through the Dark A fishing guide I know slightly, a man who has been running charters in the Ten Thousand Islands for longer than I

The biologist had a map spread across the hood of her truck, a topographic printout with blue arrows drawn on it in marker, and she was explaining water fl

The crocodile was on the bank before I saw it, which is how it usually works. I was paddling the edge of a tidal creek off Chokoloskee Bay in early Novembe

The guide said it quietly, not for effect. We were idling in a skiff at the edge of a sawgrass flat outside Everglades City, the morning still grey and the