Showing posts with label Everglades. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Everglades. Show all posts

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Everglades


The everglades are very different than anything I have ever been to.  I don't think that I would go back there again, at least not during the summer.  The bugs were terrible:



Or presented in terms of my favorite type of chart:

I'm kinda confused how I got so many bites on my legs when I wore pants the entire time. I also wore a long sleeved shirt, but at times I had the sleeves rolled up.
You try navigating off this map.  How do you tell the blobs apart?
I started at the Rangers Station in Chokoloskee Bay, and followed the outgoing tide to the Sandfly pass, camping on the little Island to the Southwest of Jack Daniel's key.  I think the navigation was the most frustrating part of it; everything looks the same.  It was the only time camping where I really used my compass.
 
Pretty Seashell


Smug Bird

Pretty sweet campsite.  Shame that it was below the tide line.