Gators and Birds in Florida’s River of Grass: Touring the Everglades

After only a few minutes, the boat stopped, and so did my breath—a medium-sized alligator was basking in the sun right next to our vessel.

The Everglades is technically a river, flowing southwest at the slow rate of about a quarter mile a day. Wibke Carter

“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.”

These opening words from environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas in her book “The Everglades: River of Grass” summarize the uniqueness of the wetlands.