CA eco-cruises Eagle Cap, Ore. Jamestown Wired travel Ga. We are standing at the edge of a blackwater swamp at twilight. Firefly flares dance among the dark stands of nearby trees.
Cypress knees press up from the muck of the bottom.
A cool fog blankets the swamp's surface, engulfing the low-hanging Spanish moss and dead wood. A frog perhaps. It's just make-believe. You can't see the cooling coils chilling the room. Or the fog machine kicking out mist.