“Gator informed me, as we bounded along in his little Toyota sedan over a rough two-lane blacktop. The road ran straight as a die between cane fields that stretched as far as I could see in either direction. We were traveling north of the Big Cypress Reservation, heading for the Caloosahatchee River. It was early evening, and the thunderheads had built up high and wide and fuzzy, ready to pelt us as soon as we were foolish enough to drive under one of them. And yet I felt an urgency to get after... them, as if they could draw me closer to Miles Guffey’s boat, and his boat could bring me to Jack. Eduardo “Gator” Batista continued his educational travelogue. “Right now Okeechobee’s surface is maybe twelve feet above sea level. There’s a levee built around it, because one time it flooded and killed about 3,000 people. You know, the Everglades are all water, really, just a little land in there to confuse the folks up north with more money than sense, make them think this is farmland, or a good place to build a retirement house.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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