If you’re from New York, you may call him Bigfoot.

Every culture has one, and in Florida, we have two. In the north end of the state, he’s the Bardin Booger. Towards the southern edges, we call him the Skunk Ape. I wrote this about trying to find proof of the latter.

Read more about my adventures with the Skunk Ape and the swampy pockets of southernmost Florida in this Road Trip I wrote for Creative Loafing Tampa.

Like what I wrote? I have a whole book about my great Florida road trip, and you can buy it from Inkwood Books, which is a lot like Amazon, only they’re local and nothing at all like a massive local-eating website, except they can also usually shop in two days, so please show them some love, OK?