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Big Cypress: Snakes, Swamps, and Staying the Night

At the start of this year, I said I wanted to take more Florida road trips in 2024. This worked out well, because for my birthday, El Cap arranged a swamp walk and two-night stay in Big Cypress. Specially, at Clyde Butcher's place, where they not only offer swamp walks, but bungalows where you can stay. A few weeks ago, we set out, cutting across Florida on US 41 (one of my favorite stretches), arriving later than we'd hoped. If you've driven across US 41 from Naples to Miami (or the other way around), you've passed Clyde Butcher's gallery. It's a relatively small outpost in a relatively vast expanse of swamp, and while I've often stopped to drool over his gorgeous black-and-white, better-than-anything-Ansel-Adams-ever-did landscapes, I had no idea that, right behind this gallery was a hidden place to stay in the middle of...

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