Journal 17

Douglas describes the Everglades so well that one could picture them if they understood the shape of Florida. I like how he goes into detail about how up until just recently it was not studied, people have been at awe with how weird it is and how it exists nowhere else in the world. The way the Okeechobee Lake feeds into the Everglades and how no person has ever traveled the entire river running down. Even today parts of the Everglades are unmapped and unknown hidden from mans touching. The water will overflow its boundaries in the lake and flow south towards the glades feeding the clean fresh water over the land and flowing into the glades. The way the rock has been carved by this massive force of water is amazing, they say that if you took out the saw grass it would be the weirdest country ever seen, with just open rock areas, carved, holes, it would be an amazing sight. All from traveling water. It is amazing what this has done for Florida, our climate, animals, and plant life, all feed and survive off the benefits it provides. We have destroyed parts of it, and now are beginning a restoration project for it, but I like how Douglas describes the beauty of this weird phenomenon instead of talking so much about the usage, people fall in love with beauty then fall in love with the usage of something, and to draw people in, he did the correct method