When I was a boy we played capture the flag in some of the undeveloped waterfront acreage that is all covered by condos for decades now. If you found a place t

When I was a boy we played capture the flag in some of the undeveloped waterfront acreage that is all covered by condos for decades now. If you found a place that was dry land and you had to go through mangroves to get to, that was an isolated place. Before development, lots of the Intracoastal and side canals had mangroves before the first seawalls were built, we thought they were a nuisance when there were so many it was difficult to find a sandy spot to beach a small boat and go ashore. The local kids called them gooli-gooli plants, everybody else was from up north and they didn't know what they were either :)