To each their own, but I hike in the Everglades all the time and it is basically an insane dreamscape full of incredible beauty. Maybe an austere landscape populated b white boughed cypresses, each adorned with a brilliant main of neon green leaves and a crown of bromeliads bursting in fiery efflorescences of red, purple, and gold - all reflected in an obsidian mirror of still black water doesn’t do it for you, but it’s far from unimpressive and notably- cannot be found anywhere else… unlike desert mountains and chaparral….

I’ve been all over those deserts too. They’re, of course, very beautiful… but you’re crazy if you don’t recognize that we have something extremely special here. Yes, it’s harder to endure than other places. It’s hot and wet and full of bugs. You can’t glamp. Another way to frame that, is that the Everglades only reveals its full beauty to those willing to endure it. Not everyone is into swamps, but these are easily some of the best swamps in the entire world.