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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 13:21:00 GMT
Everglades
The Tammiama Trail
Yesterday we drove from Marathon to Ft. Myers to drop off the engine head
at a machine shop recommended by Diesel Don. It was about 5 hours each
way. I was sick, there's something going around the harbor, a 24 hour
bug. So Hannah drove the entire way there. I drove about half the way
back. The road was built originally in the 1920's. There were lots of
air boat ride places and of course national parks. Along that entire 85
mile road through the everglades there were almost no gas stations. It's
pretty remote. The scenery however was wonderful and mostly un spoiled.
Through Hannah's Oakleys the greens were amazing. There is an Indian
reservation there as well for the Miccosukee. The land alternates between
marshes and grasslands dottet with pine trees widely spaced apart.
Evidently the water has been rising because there are levies protecting
the road. (perhaps the road is sinking? who knows) We saw lots of birds
but no panthers or Gaters, except for a couple little ones that were dead
by the road. The weather was nice and we could see for miles across the
grasslands all the way to the horizon. There was an old radio station out
there with a 4 square tower setup but we wern't sure if it was still
operational or not. The towers didn't look too bad but the building
looked abandoned. Cell service was bad. It was a welcome wilderness
after the concrete jungles of Miami.
Lamont's machine shop took the head and said it wouldn't be this week but
probably next week before it's done. We were going to drive by US Metal
Fabricators in Lauderdale but didn't have the time to make it before they
closed so we came straight back.
Yesterday at about 4am Sam dropped his phone off the stern of the boat.
We were all pretty upset and figured he would need a new phone. It is
supposed to be water proof (ip68) which is a bucket of fresh water for 15
min. It was also in a water proof case. So after 8 hours in 8 feet of
salt water one of the diver couples in the harbor, Katie found it for us.
Sam took it out of the case which had almost no water in it rinsed it off
and put it in rice over night. This morning we turned it on and amazingly
it turned on just fine with no problems.
This caused a minor celebration on the boat. The case was an Otterbox
Defender. So if you are looking for a good case for your phone we are all
in with Otterbox.