Airboat tour

Gators galore!

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January 31st 2007
We left Big Torch Key early enough to make the start of the Tamiami Trail (the highway that runs to the west coast through the Everglades) by about 11am. The new section of bridge we being built when we drove down to the keys didn't seem to have gotten any longer since then, indicating how much time the whole highway must have taken to build! I have always wanted to go on an airboat, so I was re ... read more

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