Zero feet of elevation, on canal lots
Plantation Island sits on Halfway Creek just south of Everglades City off CR 29, a small community of canal-lined lots at zero feet of elevation. Around a hundred and twenty people live here.
There is no way to soften what that means. This is the lowest ground in an already low county, in the path of every storm that comes up this coast, and the housing is correspondingly small, often elevated and heavily weathered. Roofing here is about honest work on modest buildings in a punishing environment.