The Everglades is mostly ridge and slough …
As far as the eye can see.
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Can you see the tree island? Can you see the direction of flow? |
Tree islands are down there, too.
They dot the shallow freshwater sea as tear-dropped shaped mounds of dry and rarer still – shaded! – archipelagos oriented in the direction of regional flow …
Better known as the River of Grass.