Pa-hay-okee Overlook: The River of Grass You Can't See Moving | Everglades, Florida Hike + History

You are looking at a river. A narrated walk through Pa-hay-okee Overlook, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. Real footage from the trail, with the deep history and natural history of the place: the geology that built it, the people whose homeland it is, and how it came to be protected. Filmed January 2025. CHAPTERS 0:00 Hook 0:44 Where We Are 1:24 The Platform 2:04 The Name 2:48 Where Everglades Comes From 3:33 River, Not Swamp 4:13 The Woman Who Said It 4:56 The Hydrologist 5:36 The Sheet 6:20 Two Inches 7:01 Watching It 7:39 The Lake 8:20 The Grass 9:01 It Is Not A Grass 9:43 The Saw 10:22 The Mat 11:04 The Base Of Everything 11:44 Ten Parts Per Billion 12:27 The Floor 13:07 Five Thousand Years 13:49 Wet And Dry 14:32 Gator Holes 15:14 The Birds And The Clock 15:56 Who Was Here 16:37 The Nations Here Now 17:22 The Man Who Bought It 18:05 The Promise 18:48 The Canals 19:28 The Storm 20:11 The Wall 20:55 The Road As A Dam 21:37 The Plumbing 22:20 What Is Left 23:02 How The Park Happened 23:45 Putting It Back 24:30 Bridging The Dam 25:12 Still In Danger 25:51 Outro CREDITS Music: Earth Prelude by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0. Narration is AI generated; history verified against public sources. @fruworldexplorer