Experience the Everglades

MUCK-ABOUT
(muk-e bout`) 1. Florida's response to Australia's "walk-about" 2. to walk through a piece of wet spongy land; marsh; bog 3. to plunge or sink in a swamp, deep water, etc 4. to walk in a swamp 5. to enjoy oneself in a primeval environment

"...If it were proposed to me to dwell in the neighborhood of the most beautiful garden that ever human art contrived, or else of a Dismal Swamp, I should certainly decide for the swamp...I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature..." Thoreau

“As we trudge through the swamp’s waist high waters, my senses have become overloaded: the sugar-sweet oxygen, the Oz-like spectrum of color, the coolness of the water, the silence that fills the spaces between the cypress and the pond apple trees. It’s too much for the mind to take in at one time. Clyde points out that when walking through the swamp, there is a likelihood that you are the first person ever in the history of the world to step where your feet currently are.

The swamp is so thick, so fascinating, so abundant with life that I wonder how anyone can make sense enough of anything out here to capture it in photographs. All of my fears of the swamp have vanished. I have vanished. It’s just my soul and the swamp.”
By: Scott Clair