BACKCOUNTRY ADVENTURE

Florida Bay is located between the southern tip of mainland Florida and the Florida Keys. The Backcountry, as it’s called, consists of a triangular area generally north of the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), south of the mainland and east of a line from Flamingo to Lower Matacumbe Key, within the boundaries of Everglades National Park (ENP). It is a unique area of open water basins fringed by shoals and keys. To get from one basin to another one must cross a shoal or go through a pass. has patches of dark green and prop trails. Prop trails are light colored strips where a motorboat has denuded the bank vegetation. Prop trails

Flamingo and the Backcountry were first settled by non-native people around 1885. The early