More Everglades

Russell Pass, Everglades National Park, FL
25 50.36 N 081 26.24 W

WE HAVE NO CELL PHONE SERVICE HERE. Haven't had any since 1/7 and won't again until 1/16.

With a bit of reluctance, we left Little Shark River. That was a really nice place and we liked being there. We motored another 40 miles northwest to the vicinity of Everglades City.

The water here isn't as nice as it was in the Little Shark. There appears to be an algal bloom in all the Gulf of Mexico waters nearby. The water looks like pea soup. In the Little Shark, the water was stained brown with tannin, rather like the inland waters of North Carolina. Here in Russell Pass, the water is green on the incoming tide and brown on the outgoing tide.

From the sound of the weather reports, we'll be here several days. We would like to look around Everglades City a little bit. We can't take Tarwathie in there; too shallow. We'll have to go by dinghy, 4 miles one way.