Full Throttle in the Glades: Airboats Have Their Advers...

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Full Throttle in the Glades: Airboats Have Their Adversaries, but They're a Thrilling Way to See the Wild Beauty of Florida's "River of Grass

By Chris Gray, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Jan. 14--EVERGLADES CITY, Fla. -- We are careening over tea-colored waters in a turbocharged airboat, whizzing past gnarled mangrove trees at speeds reaching 50 m.p.h., when suddenly, an alligator pops up in front of us.

Our guide, Aaron, whoops and cuts the engine, as the gator swims frantically to get out of our path. I remove my sound-muffling headgear and snap my photos with the other tourists, but my sympathies lie with the reptile. We came to the Everglades to see gators, sure -- but should we really be chasing them down?

The line between loving and hurting nature seems to be...

Full story here: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/800557/full_throttle...

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[Country_Boy_85]

haha, another liberal who apparently has never eaten gator tail!

 

[Ms. Wizard]

This article started out pretty negative however, if you read on spins a positive circle around our passion. I commend this "northerner" for looking at it from both sides. I believe it's all in perception, how one "percieves" things. It may very well looked to her that they were "gator chasing". I also feel thier guide Aaron, could have kept most of the personal transgressions to himself.

dawn

 

[Dakota]

I agree with you Dawn. I went on and read the article and it was great. I believe Aaron could have kept certain things out as these were the northerners he was talking about. These people had never been on an airboat ever before but now they have that first impression forever.