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National Geographic : 1982 Aug
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High kicks and high jinks explode in Fort Lauderdale,where college kids flock each spring with lemming-like constancy (above left). A vagabond proselytizer moves among the ranks (above right) on beaches that witnessed the invasion of some 240,000 students during Easter break thisyear. Erosion has nibbled away much of the state's beaches on the eastcoast because of oceanfrontoverbuilding.But a 52-million dollar restorationproject undertaken by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers has replaced some 13.1 million cubicyards of sand on a ten-mile stretch of Miami-area beaches, and other reclamation projects areplannedfor fartherup the coast. In a state where kitsch is often king-size, a 15-foot-tall beer can and an alligator shaped sign herald a roadside eatery called Glader Park on the Tamiami Trail (left). The trail, a 265-mile-long asphalt ribbonconnectingMiamiand Tampa, cuts through the Everglades, a wildlife-rich saw-grass wetland some 50 miles wide. Gatorsare legal gristfor the grinder here, provided the meat comes from rogue ani mals thathave strayedfrom the state's lat ticework of rural canals and wandered into inhabitedareas. The hides and meat of animals taken by contractedagents of the Game and FreshWater Fish Commis sionare sold to tanneriesand restaurants. "Gator is rather chewy-sort of like a chicken-fish mix," says the author, who sampled a steak. Florida-ATime for Reckoning 203 NAIMANu tNN LABUVtANU LUWtn Ltil) ANU ItVIN ILtMIN(
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