We were told that fewer than one-half of one percent of people who visit the Everglades sign up for a “slough slog.” So for every 100 people who show up at the park, only a single person’s bottom half makes the trek. Presumably the smarter top half stays back at camp drinking beers. I don’t know how that works exactly, but the point is, not many people do this, which is part of the attraction.

In our travels we’ve taken countless hikes over dry land. We’ve canoed through alligator infested cypress swamps and we even canoed through the “river of grass” known as the Everglades. One thing we haven’t done, though, is waded through an alligator infested swamp in search of places you can’t get to by boat. That is until now. Read More…