During our visit to Fort Lauderdale in Florida we took a trip to the Everglades where we did a high speed Air Boat ride through the wetlands. It was a thrilling but very noisy ride and fortunately the company running the trips provided ear plugs. The boat travelled at high speeds and at times negotiated tight turns.
The sawgrass is found in the wetlands and is well known in the Florida Everglades area. Although it is called a grass its actually a a member of the Sedge family because of its sharp "teeth" along the edges of each blade. At times and in the right conditions it grows up to over 2.7 metres in height in the rich dark peat soils. When we visited they had had very high rainfall and the water level was 1.5-2 metres higher than normal.
We had company at times as the water is inhabited with good numbers of alligators. Fortunately we were seated at a good height in the boat as this one circled us a few times before we moved on.
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