Wilderness Coast

by Jack Rudloe

The "wilderness coast"--that portion of the Florida Panhandle that juts south into the Gulf of Mexico--is the home of Gulf Specimen Company, and the source of most of the marine creatures that it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525485155
• ISBN13: 9780525485155
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Beyond the familiar shore

I have the pleasure of living near Panacea, Florida and have visited Gulf Specimens Lab, the home port for Jack Rudloe. I've been fortunate to take Ann Rudloe's Coastal Ecosystem class, so these stories present a delightful appendix to those Panhandle experiences. Presented here is a rewarding mix of adventure, science, and Jack's home spun philosophy. He starts on the shore with horseshoe crab mating and describes their birth then describes a canoe adventure down the Suwannee. Further adventures describe finding the largest toad fish, giant sea roaches, and adventures with sawfish, octopus, electric rays, and spiny lobsters. Perhaps pulling the stories together are the tails of turtles and "the turtle mother".