We used to like to go to Jonathan Dickinson State Park and do the night horse rides. I wounder if they still do that?
As of last year, they still did. I haven't been since then, so I couldn't tell you if they still do, but I imagine they would unless something happened.
I like it north of here(Delray Beach) it just feels and smells different/better.
Yeah, that's probably just the swamps, though pollution has been a MAJOR problem. Some places off of the water just smell like literal shit. I can't remember what they're called, but I went out to the mouth of the St. Lucie with a marine biologist to take samples of the the bottom with this claw-box thing attached to a rope and the stuff we pulled up was like black pudding that smelled like concentrated detritus. 80's horror-movie sludge. It's basically a box cut in half on the bottom with hinges on the top. When you drop it into the water, the resistance keeps it open until you tug on a rope that's tied to the ends of the hinges, so you drop it in the water and when you pull it back up after it stops sinking, it closes down on whatever is under it just by way of the dragging motion. It's meant to pick up rocks, sand, and bits of algae.
Iwas holding the rope and I felt it hit rock and sediment as I pulled it back up, but the box was full of what looked like 20-year-old chocolate pudding. I'm talking like a 1x1x1 foot box full of sludge that doubled in size in our collection bin. Like, some all enveloping Sotoshi Kon darkness. Sound effects and all.
He said that it was a layer of microbes several feet thick that basically thrive in the pollution-rich water and starve it of oxygen, thus feeding an ongoing process of decay. I can attest to the mass die-offs of puffer fish that used to live where that stuff is now. There are places where going in the water can be deadly because there are hundreds of dead puffer's floating downstream. We had a scare recently when my buddy's dog went out into some brackish water and brought one of them back to us in its mouth.
