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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Feb 6, 2013
Description:
Postcard courtesy of aerialadvertisingworks.net showing Everglades City and the Northern border of the Everglades. Annotations are mine. K01 (Everglades Airpark) shown in upper right area.
Date Taken:
Feb 6, 2013
Place Taken:
Everglades City area
Owner:
aerialadvertisingworks.net
File Name:
K01.jpg - Photo HTML
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Category:
34, Florida Flying,
519, SW Florida Destinations
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Don Maxwell - Feb 06,2013
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Wouldn't want to skid off the end of that runway in a snowstorm.<br /><br />One of the things I especially like about this photo, Frank, is that it makes very clear how humans like straight lines and nature doesn't seem to care much about them.
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Frank A. Carr - Feb 06,2013
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February on the James River must be getting to you Prof. Don. Snowstorm in Everglades City? Not holding my breath!I see your point about straight lines Don. I did observe one traffic circle however. Well, circle yes, traffic no.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Kenneth Leonard - Feb 07,2013
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Was there a couple of weeks ago. Several seafood places very close will come pick you up. Super <br />friendly FBO.
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Russ Garner - Feb 08,2013
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Frank, should we say what this island is really famous for?<br />The grouper is a large fish that's a common catch for commercial fisherman of the Pacific Ocean, but a square grouper is something else altogether. During the heyday of South Florida as a nexus for marijuana smuggling in the 1970s and '80s, it wasn't unknown for boats or planes carrying large cargos of weed to find themselves followed (or to just imagine they were being watched). Rather than risk being caught with the product, they'd throw huge amounts of pot overboard, and folks would often report finding a 'square grouper' afterward, local slang for a lost bale of marijuana. Filmmaker Billy Corben, who previously explored true stories of the Florida drug trade in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys, offers more tales from this time and place in Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja, which for the most part takes a playful, lightweight approach to these misadventures in the Sunshine State, though like a good buzz it tends to be entertaining at the time but doesn't seem all that important in retrospect.<br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/square-grouper-the-godfathers-of-ganja#ixzz2KJVPpmBc">http://www.answers.com/topic/square-grouper-the-godfathers-o<br>f-ganja#ixzz2KJVPpmBc</a><br />
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Frank A. Carr - Feb 08,2013
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Interesting background Russ. Had not heard that and the folks at Everglades City didn't <br />offer it either. Combined with SeaRey lore, sounds like the making of a Dan Nickens tale.
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Russ Garner - Feb 08,2013
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Oh gees Frank, I don't know if Dan would want any part of the folk lore.
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Russ Garner - Feb 08,2013
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Frank, if you have some time there's a lot of stories online about this subject and it's interesting to me after I met some of the characters that might have been involved in the legal end of this market, if there was one. We, Lou Ann and I have had Christmas dinner for the last few years with several upscale older once Miami residents that were in the large boat, banking and pharmaceutical trade in South Florida during this time. If you have Netflix watch the Square Grouper movie or there are parts of it on Youtube as well and be careful where you land down there you might find yourself next to a big square grouper.<br />
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