Interesting To Me Anyway

In the two plus years I've been working out in the Everglades, I've seen only a small number of animals. Sure, there are tons of fish, turtles and birds and of course the alligators but it's rare to see many mammals.

I've seen two white tail deer.

I've seen a handful of otters.

A raccoon.

And just today, for the first time ever, I saw a fox. A big, bushy tailed fox bolting across the grass and up in to the brush on the other side of the road.

I'm pretty disgusted at what this city has done to the Everglades. Now much of it is considered National Park and cannot be touched by the bulldozer anymore but that does not stop these assholes from building right up to that line, that border, with their ugly ass cookie cutter duplexes and townhomes. It doesn't stop them from wanting to build a got damn baseball stadium just inches away from the Glades themselves.

This means MORE traffic, more pollution, more people coming out to the Everglades and trashing it. I wish I could get my camera to work so I could download some photos I took a year ago just up the road. I took these photos because I could not believe the piles of litter sitting right there, at the water's edge, right there, in the Everglades, right there, where wildlife are trying to live....it was so repulsive, I didn't know what else to do but photograph it.

I think I need to go out and start picking it all up but it could take months, there's so much damn litter.

I don't understand how people can say they love the outdoors, they love nature, they come out to fish, hunt and look at things and then destroy it.

It's sad that I've been out here for over two years and today was the first time I've ever seen a fox out here.

P.S. Dear Florida:

Stop dumping your unwanted pets out here! NOK IT OFF! If you no longer want your cat, dog, snake, iguana, bird, take it to the Humane Society and surrender it. Stop abandoning them out in the Everglades! Your dog and cat can no way in HELL make it out here you wits! They will die, usually before you've made it down the road. Your snakes? Your pythons? You stupid cows, your abandoned pythons are destroying the wildlife out here. Iguanas...are NOT NATIVE TO SOUTH FLORIDA! Stop dropping them off out here! They are destroying the fauna!

The Everglades makes life better for you and you are destroying it because you are too inept to know what's good for you.

And another thing, what you are doing is illegal. And you bet your sorry pathetic asses that if I ever catch you doing it, I'm reporting you and you will be in a shit load of trouble. You are committing a crime in a national park. And then you get to deal with the Animal Cops after the government's done with you.

How stupid and selfish people are. Don't ever get a pet again. Just stay in the city in your concrete jungle, smog up your neighborhood and leave us and the wildlife alone. Idiots.