More recently, as if to underscore the impermanence of South Florida’s geography, more than one developer has toyed with partially filling in the lake to build condos. In the years since, it has served as a venue for boat races, a swimming hole for manatees, and a set for the 1960s TV show Flipper.
The lake, like so many others in Florida, began as a rock quarry. We drift through brackish water toward the middle of privately owned Maule Lake in North Miami Beach. This story appears in the February 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine.įrank Behrens, a gregarious pitchman for a Dutch development company that sees profit, not loss, in climate change, cuts the engine on our 22-foot Hurricane runabout.
