Outdoor Happening: An unlikely outboard motor repair kept two teens from staying over in the Everglades.
Sometimes, survival means sticking things where they don’t belong. Weird? Maybe. But trust me—this trick just might save your life.
Over 30 years ago, back when I was a teenager, my buddies and I ditched school and headed to Everglades National Park in search of snook and redfish in the backcountry. It was a perfect South Florida winter day, and we were fired up.
It was 1990—there were no such things as cell phones and no GPS. The GPS existed, but it was expensive and only spit out coordinates, which would not have helped us much anyway. Either way, we sure as heck didn’t have one…