Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Balls of Twine in South Florida

I made John stop at the smallest post office in the United States. The interesting part to me was that there were a lot of people stopping at the post office to take pictures. We tourist will take pictures of anything!

This is the Skunk Ape Research Center. Well…it’s also a gift store (lots of Skunk Ape T-shirts) and campground. But there’s a section that talks about the Skunk Ape, which is the local name for Bigfoot since he apparently gets stinkier in the swamps of Florida. This area is supposed to have the largest sightings of Bigfoot outside of the Northwest. The rangers make fun of this whole thing. Sometimes people will hear a noise in the area (probably a gator) and ask about it. The rangers have been known to tell them it’s the Skunk Ape. At the ‘Research Center’, there was a picture of the Skunk Ape, a casting of his footprints, and they sold a booklet about him. Very cool!

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