| And the traditional Seminole chickee, a raised-platform, palmetto-thatched dwelling, recently was adopted as an outdoor shelter by the general population of south Florida. |
| The safe zone would have large Quonset hut or chickee structures, bathrooms, showers and a laundry facility. |
| I stopped for a drink at the water cooler in the chickee hut, a local Seminole thatched-roof structure at the edge of the Florida native garden, and realized my energy was starting to wane. |
| Or at least to a resting place like the Sunday Bay chickee, where we pitched our tent on a platform in the middle of the water, boiled our evening tea and watched the sun go down. |
