Swampy's Florida

Last week Bryan Williams contributed Lake Okeechobee. In my running around, I turned that into The Everglades. Here I correct that.

Here’s Zuber, Trilby and Alva making their way south across Lake Okeechobee to Ritta Island. Ritta Island, once was an island on the south end of Lake Okeechobee until humans got involved. People started settling what would otherwise be considered uninhabitable land in the early 1900s. Then the hurricane of 1926 and ’28 wiped away the settlements and the Hoover Dike was built by the Army Corps of Engineers around Lake Okeechobee. Ritta Island became a part of the dike.