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Fakahatchee Cruise, 2013

See larger Guide Patrick Higgins talks mangroves with the guests. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent

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Guide Patrick Higgins talks mangroves with the guests. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent

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  • A pair of cormorants take to the sky. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • Naturalist Patrick Higgins talks to the passengers aboard the Starfish. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • Steve Koreny of Naples takes in the view from the Starfish. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • Passengers and guide Patrick Higgins disembark from the Starfish. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • Guide Patrick Higgins talks mangroves with the guests. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • The aptly named prickly pear can inflict painful puncture wounds. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • Early settlers on the islands made their own tombstones from concrete. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • This unusual pencil tree has spread over a wide area. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • The gumbo limbo is also called the 'tourist tree,' for its red and peeling skin. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • Cormorants roost on a rookery island. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • An osprey settles back down on its nest, with chicks in residence. The Friends of Fakahatchee offers boat tours through the 10,000 Islands to Fakahatchee Island, home of early settlers to the area. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent

The Friends of Fakahatchee runs an “Island Cruise” during the winter season, but only when the tide is high enough for the boat to get through, to Fakahatchee Island. Departing from the Everglades National Park ranger station between Chokoloskee and Everglades City last Wednesday, the Starfish threaded her way through the bays and narrow passages between the mangrove cays that make up the 10,000 Islands. Twenty-five souls set out, shades of Gilligan, on “a three-hour tour.”

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