Background, I have deep roots in FL going back 400 years. My cousin and I used to "play" in the Glades with my grandfather who had a small road side seafood stand. We would take our little john boat out into the glades for a couple days catching everything from various kinds of fish, shrimp crabs, urchins, you name it for him. I know that ecosystem. You can see the sea level rise in the mangroves themselves from when I was there back in the 60's through the 90's. There are numerous small barrier islands on the edge that are there but they are under a foot of water. The places we used to camp. We went diving, just as we used to, on a reef that was always a good spot for Stoners and warm water lobsters. They were still there but the, as he pointed out to me beforehand, the reef, and many around were 1 to 2 feet deeper on our gauges. Of course all of those things could be something else but we could just see it because we knew the area so well. Sure there's been big hurricanes come through but those have been coming through since the beginning. The ecosystem is built for it.
I still go down there a few times a year because its in my blood. I'm genetically tied to the Everglades. It feels natural to me when I'm there because part of my family's roots are tied to the area as much as the Mangroves. More than sea level rise they are being choked off by humans almost completely blocking off flow in the giant river that southern FL is. Without that massive amount of water slowly flowing south into the Glades it's slowly killing it. I cry every time I go back down there and see what we've done to that beautiful paradise. It very well may be gone or very nearly gone in 50 years. Half of it has disappeared in my lifetime.
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