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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