Florida = weird shit: part 3
Everglade City-ish, FL, 2007
After a loud and adventurous airboat ride through the everglades, my dad, my step-mom, Laura and I made our way back home. As we were leaving we noticed an "ice-cream" sign on the side of the road. As we pulled up to this place I saw a sign that said, "Official Skunk-Ape Research Center". Weird place to research skunks and apes I thought to myself. Poor little Tim, it's not a skunk and ape research center, its a Skunk-Ape research center!
Skunk-Ape (official site here) is Florida's Big-Foot. Inside the "Official Skunk-Ape Research Center" you will find an assortment of odd alligator trophies, Skunk-Ape DVD's and Skunk-Ape T-shirts, as well as a very bizarre caged room full of exotic animals caged within, well, a cage. Looked like something out of "Silence of The Lambs"!
We didn't buy any ice-cream.
posted by Timothy Briner at
5:20 PM
2 Comments:
But what about the guy working at the "Skunk-Ape" museum/campground/zoo? He was as scary as some of those alligator heads! Which led me to my observation that a "skunk-ape" is apparently part ape, part skunk, part white- supremacist.
Yes, It is true, Skunk Ape is equal parts Skunk, Ape, and white-supremacist! When you said that I fell in love with you all over again! Brilliant!
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