"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them: their vast glittering openness, wider than the enormous visible round of the horizon, the racing free saltness and sweetness of their massive winds, under the dazzling blue heights of space. They are unique also in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life they enclose. The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass."

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas "The Everglades; River of Grass".

More information on our March, 2009 Everglades paddling trips is coming soon.

While the majority of the park is a shallow river during the rainy season and a dry savannah during the dry, the southern coastal section where we canoe is a brackish and salt-water mangrove maze of bays, rivers, small creeks, and the wide-open expanse of the gulf of Mexico.

If you're interested in paddling in the park, be sure to read my trip journal from 2001 where I paddled from Everglades City to Flamingo.

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