The Everglades Matriarch crocodile, so old she has no teeth, she used up a whole lifetimes worth. She laid eggs along the shore near the marina today.

A 64 year old woman who volunteers here at the park just returned from a 215 mile solo kayak trip through the glades. She has logged 175 nights alone in the backcountry of the Everglades over the past 10 years or so. She talked about it tonight with wonderful memories of sunsets, sunrises and black starlit nights. She also talked about horrible bugs, shoe stealing-thick mudflats, storms, sharks, equipment failures and navigation challenges in the maze-like mangrove swamps.
It seems generally more scary than the canoe trip in Boundary Waters in Minnesota for some reason. I don’t think I would go for weeks at a time but it might be cool to try for a couple nights.