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Brittany had no choice. She lunged.
Then, a rustle in the sawgrass. Crockett, a grizzled man with a snake tattoo on his neck, waded into view. He didn’t say a word. He just dropped to his knees beside her, grabbed the python’s tail, and began to carefully unwind it.
An hour later, the three pythons were safely bagged and tagged. Brittany sat on the front of the airboat, rinsing the mud off her legs with a water bottle. The turquoise bikini was now more brown than blue.
For ten long seconds, it was just Brittany, the bikini, and the beast. Mud splattered across her stomach and shoulders. A strand of her braid came loose, sticking to her cheek. Her muscles screamed as she kept the giant snake’s head down while its powerful body coiled around a submerged log. brittany borges guardians of the glades bikini
She pulled her Guardians of the Glades cap low over her eyes, leaned back against the warm metal of the boat, and let the afternoon sun dry the rest of the mud on her skin. The bikini had survived. The pythons were caught. And the Everglades, for one more day, had its guardians.
The bikini was surprisingly practical. It dried almost instantly in the oven-like heat, and with no heavy fabric to weigh her down, she moved silently, gliding the kayak around submerged logs and through curtains of floating vegetation. She was a ghost, a streak of tanned skin and turquoise against the green labyrinth.
The problem was the route. The only way in was a two-mile paddle through a series of tight, shallow creeks too narrow for their airboat. And in the brutal, shimmering heat of a Florida July, that meant one thing: she was going in the water. Brittany had no choice
She slipped into the bikini, tied her dark hair back into a tight braid, and slid the narrow kayak into the water. The moment she pushed off, the world closed in. Towering cypress trees draped in Spanish moss blocked the sun, casting dappled shadows on the water. The air was thick, buzzing with dragonflies and the distant, prehistoric bellow of an alligator.
Brittany’s heart hammered, but her hands were steady. This was the prize. She radioed Crockett in a whisper. “I’ve got eyes on a triple. Need a hand.”
Brittany laughed, wiping a smear of mud from her cheek. “And most folks would have turned around at the first alligator.” She looked back at the dark, silent glades. “We’re not most folks.” Crockett, a grizzled man with a snake tattoo
Crockett handed her a towel. “You know,” he said, a rare grin cracking his weathered face, “most folks wear a little more armor to wrestle a fourteen-foot snake.”
She pulled the kayak alongside a mud bank and stepped out, the cool muck squelching between her toes. Her python hook was in her hand. Ten feet away, half-hidden in the roots of a giant strangler fig, was a mass of scales. It wasn't one python. It was three. A large female, easily fourteen feet, and two smaller males, all tangled in a breeding ball.
Brittany peeled off her usual field gear—the thick gloves, the heavy cargo pants, the reinforced boots. She tucked a compact satellite phone, a multi-tool, and a small first-aid kit into a dry bag. For clothing, she opted for a high-SPF rash guard and a pair of durable, quick-drying shorts. But as she looked at her reflection in the side mirror of the truck, she paused. Her typical swimsuit was back at the base. The only thing clean in her go-bag was a bright turquoise bikini she’d thrown in for a rare day off. She shrugged. Function over fashion—or in this case, function with a side of tropical flair.
But the female python sensed the intrusion. Uncoiling with terrifying speed, she slithered not away from Brittany, but toward the shallow water where the kayak was beached. If she reached the main channel, she would vanish.