23.- Everglades, Front view of the airboat

The route ahead is deeper than the flat grass on the left. The grass stretches to the horizon. The name "glade" means a flat place between trees in the forest. Well, here in the flat land of South Florida, there is almost no forest, just grass ; it goes "forever." The "River of Grass" is another name for the Everglades, since the water flows from the north to the south in a "river" that is about 80 km wide. Large pipes under the two major roads (Interstate 75 and State Road 41) that cross the everglades allow the water to cross under the roads. There are other pipes for animals (and cameras in the pipes take video pictures of panthers, foxes, deer and other wildlife).

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