The everglades are a marshy subtropical stew: skunk water, sawgrass, hammocks (islandlike masses of vegetation), palms and mangrove forests.

Much of the year the Glades are impossible with biting insects.

I took a ranger led canoe day trip through the 10,000 Islands (actually only hundreds of mangrove islands) out of Everglades City.

The highlight was a frolic of dolphins that came close.

There is a good 10-day water wilderness trip from here all the way to Flamingo. What a trip that would be!

Next time, perhaps. This is the last post on this series of travelogues. I left the sun for frozen Calgary on the first day of Spring.