Here’s a story about Jack Island from the Sun-Sentinel, 2008. As of today’s posting, the concrete footbridge is closed:
Photo: Onajide Shabaka
sun-sentinel.com/travel/sfl-jackislandbrmar30,0,230118.story
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Taking the footbridge to unspoiled Jack Island
By Alan Snel
Special correspondent
March 30, 2008
Nature lover Leslie McGuirk has lived in the Vero [...]
Several years ago I saw this strange book about African mathematics. I thought it odd, looked at more info on Amazon, and came away very impressed. Enough impressed I ended up emailing the author. Of course, at this point I know he doesn’t remember our exchanges but I do. It was about teaching [...]
I guess I didn’t post this image here earlier, but now I need to. I’ve had an unwelcome visitor in my apartment tonight. A southern ring-necked snake. It was not full grown, and they don’t grow very large anyway. They are not dangerous. However, I suspect it may die if it doesn’t get [...]
by Henry David Thoreau
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil–to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, [...]
Cypress trees grow directly in the river. Think of a Mississippi swamp with moss hanging. We have the same thing here. This water is not a swamp though. It moves very swiftly but, I think that’s because we’ve had so much rain lately. We paddled up one fork and deboarded onto a gravel road and [...]
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