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Florida Bay
View at top: Indian Key
With Egan as guide, Audubon explored Florida Bay, including Sandy Key,
a rookery near Cape Sable.
"... seldom have I experienced greater pleasures than when on the Florida
Keys, under a burning sun, after pushing my bark for miles over a soapy
flat, I have striven all day long, tormented by myraids of insects, to
procure a heron new to me, and have at length succeed in my efforts. And
then how amply are the labours of the naturalist compensated, when, after
observing the wildest and most distrustful birds, in their remote and
almost inaccessible breeding places, he returns from his journeys, and
relates his adventures to an interested and friendly audience."
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