"I eventually realized Florida’s beauty rivals any other place in the world. But it requires your time, and it requires your attention."
For many people, visiting the Everglades means staring out the car window at seemingly endless sawgrass marsh in between stops to ride an airboat packed with tourists, stroll a boardwalk or swat mosquitoes.
But millions of others wade deep into pristine sloughs and isolated cypress stands and come face-to-face with all sorts of amazing wildlife, maybe picking up cottonmouths or even swimming with alligators.
They’re not doing this in person, of course. They’re visiting through social media, streaming the exploits of dozens of very Florida characters who have built followings, some of them massive, for their forays into the sprawling marshes, ponds and forests of wild South Florida.
Call them the Everglades influencers.
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