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The sugarcane fields 30-40 miles west of Palm Beach. 1/4 of American sugar comes from right here, folks.
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The soil is black from buring the chafe
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These canals provide both irrigation and drainage. After all, before people came along, this was the swampland of the Everglades.
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Route 441 through Belle Glade
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Interesting footprints in the muck
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The roads along the canals through the fields. There is a lot of crushed coral and sea shells in it that are everywhere in the soil around here.
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Photo by Maureen
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Trucks along route 441. Photo by Maureen.
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Part of the old road.
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Photo by Maureen
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This shack smelled so badly that I was afriad to go into it.
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Now only the wasps and the animals live here.
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What a nice car!
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This looks like an ad in a magazine!
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The birds come...
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and go. I took the first shot and Maureen took this one.
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Burning the sugarcane fields
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Sugar plant. From here there were 4 others just like it visible on the horizon.
One truckload of sugarcane after another is delivered here non-stop all day long. We were only there for about 10 minutes and there must have been 50 trucks that drove past us or more during that time. |
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Photo by Maureen
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Photo by Maureen
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Wrecked boats, part of the damage left behind be Hurricane Wilma were all over the shores of Lake Okeechobee in Pahokee
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For some reason, I found water towers very interesting today
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Photo by Maureen
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Photo by Maureen
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Photo by Maureen
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Photo by Maureen
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Photo by Maureen
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Photo by Maureen
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Photo by Maureen
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Photo by Maureen
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Photo by Maureen
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Hanging out at the package store
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Hurricane Wilma leaves its mark
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An old movie theater
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Storm damage, neglect or both? These scenes are everywhere in this little town.
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Photo by Maureen
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Photo by Maureen. Another sugar plant in the background. The air was full of smoke and smelled of burned sugar.
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Photo by Maureen
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Photo by Maureen
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Landscaping in Pahokee
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An abandoned gas station
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The empty strip mall with a parking lot full of roofing shingles next door
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Almost everything either had bars on the wondows or is covered with plywood
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An abandoned apartment complex in the middle of an entire neighborhood of abandoned houses and other apartment buildings.
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I think people still live here.
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Right across the street is a high dollar palm tree plantation in
immaculate condition
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Photo by Maureen
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Route 717 east out of Pahokee
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Photo by Maureen
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Maureen noticed a huge flock of birds including cattle birds, heron, storks and others all resting in some trees need a big canal.
Every one of them as white. |
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Once again, route 441. This time back towards the east and home.
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