The swamp doesn’t end at Big Cypress National Preserve.
The photo below was taken in a helicopter at about 500 feet in the air near the preserves northwest corner and looking northwest and shows just that: It’s cypress as far as the eye can see.
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| Bear Island below and Ave Maria University off in the distance on the right. |
Or is it?
At some point the swamp runs into civilization at a line in the sand called the urban fringe.
Is it me or, over time, has that line moved?
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