Willie-Willie campsite is a land site located on an Indian shell mound. Like other land sites, it is very buggy during warmer months, to the point of being unusable.

However, because of it's out of the way location, it's natural screening from the water, and the fact it's a single-party site, this is a good naturist site during the cool months.

This mound was probably made by the Calusa Indians, who greatly pre-dated the Seminoles in South Florida. Mounds like these were formed from shells, bones, broken tools and pottery, etc. They generally weren't burial mounds. They were essentially Florida's first landfills. During times of high water, these mounds sometimes served as temporary living quarters.

According to Spanish accounts, the Calusa went naked much (if not most) of the time. This makes a lot of sense for the climate here. Camping here naked will allow you to share at least that part of the original inhabitants' life-ways.

I camped here on Halloween weekend of 1993. There had been a cold front or two already, so the daytime bugs weren't too bad. I was in my tent before sunset (always advised in the Glades).

At dusk, I heard a light rain on the tent. I read a book for several hours before sleeping. After a couple of hours, it occurred to me that it should feel damp, but it didn't. Curious, I shined my flashlight out the screen window and saw that there was only a thick cloud of mosquitos out there. The rain sound was them bouncing off the tent walls!