Escape from South Beach: Everglades Excursion and Cocktails with Alligators

Fresh air whipping our faces and destroying any semblance of a hair blowout, as we flew over the sawgrass prairie and rivers of the Everglades on private airboats, was a welcome escape from the crowds of South Beach. This nature excursion, masterminded by Anne Pasternak, President & Artistic Director of Creative Time, with the Everglades Foundation on December 6, was part of of the art non-profit’s mission to unite artists with organizations to spur creative responses to societal calamities. Here we learned the water supply for over seven million a day is the most critical issue, not to mention the out of state pythons that were let loose, massively multiplying and wreaking havoc on the animal balance.