Augustine Herrera sold his late uncle’s wildlife farm and moved with Bonnie Brooks to Chokoloskee, a fishing village on the edge of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands. There he bought a crab boat and built a pineboard house with space for a large library, including a wall for his collection of skulls, now numbering twenty.
Bonnie Brooks took up watercolors, cycling and outdoor photography. Her remarkable picture of a pair of bald eagles nesting in the boughs of a cypress made the cover of Audubon magazine.
Most of the wild animals that escaped from Felix Mojack’s farm during the hurricane were recaptured or, unfortunately, killed by armed home owners. The exceptions include one female cougar, forty-four rare birds, more than three hundred exotic lizards, thirty-eight snakes (venomous and nonvenomous) and twenty-nine adult rhesus monkeys, which have organized into several wily troops that roam Dade County to this day.
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