We unloaded the canoes just east of the Fakahatchee boardwalk on Tamiami trail
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We unloaded the canoes just east of the Fakahatchee boardwalk on Tamiami trail If you're lucky, you'll see a crocodile in this area, but we only saw gators Sometimes it was easier to pull yourself through the mangrove tunnels as opposed to paddling Dave won the rock paper scissors, so he got the rear We canoed through part of Ten Thousand Islands Our guide tied orange ribbons on trees so we could find the way back This is the southern part of the Everglades where the mangroves meet the sawgrass The red mangroves tolerate salt better than the blacks or whites. The tannin from the mangroves darkens the cool, usually clear Everglades water Spiderwebs were everywhere! So were the tillandsias (bromeliads) As Columbus noted on his first voyage to the New World, the mangroves were “so thick a cat couldn’t get ashore.” The spiders from all the broken webs fell into the canoe