Sawgrass is named as the site of a sligger attack roughly twenty miles north of St. Augustine Beach. The report of a second attack there, on the same night as an attack at a beach motel, made Sawgrass an important point in recognizing that the creatures had spread across separate locations and that more than one nest was likely involved.

Location in the Emerging Outbreak

Sawgrass enters the account through a sheriff’s report to Mason. The sheriff confirms that one of two attacks occurred near Sawgrass, about twenty miles north of the motel on St. Augustine Beach. The distance distinguishes the incidents as separate events rather than a single attack moving between nearby sites.

Evidence of Multiple Nests

Mason understands the two attacks as evidence that the creatures may have established a separate nest near each site. He concludes that the Sawgrass attack points to another nest, while the sheriff estimates there are at least two. The account presents the nest near Sawgrass as a reason for concern, not as a location where investigators have already confirmed or cleared a nest.

Narrative Significance

Sawgrass broadens the apparent geography of the danger. Alongside the St. Augustine Beach attack, its report supports Denise’s earlier warning that widely separated incidents mean multiple nests and creatures may be present along the coast, with further attacks possible before their locations are known. In the outbreak’s growing map, Sawgrass is therefore significant less as a described landscape than as a second, geographically distinct signal of the spread.