Field Notebook: Florida. 1935, 1936
Page 23
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Transcription
Fort Myers, Tuesday, Jan. 22-1935 We left Miami on the Tampa Buses at 8 A.M. to go via the Tamiami Trail ac- cross the Everglades to Fort Myers. Where we arrived at 11:30 and traveled 148 miles. Put up at the Franklin Arms Hotel. Room 243 for day. The trail goes through Coral Gables but through quite a different part than that of the trolley. Block of Coral Gables - say 10 miles - are set into the Everglades, flat land with patches of water you can't go by, and the dry parts covered by islands of trees and cypress, where scrubby small cypress trees more high, than 8-10 feet. Here cranes and wading birds abound. Much for this week was country with palmetto-like tall trees of palms. Then came swamps with small pine trees. And before getting to Everglades on the Gulf of Mexico we come in the usual long miles