Monday, April 11, 2011

Swamp Canoe

sorry for the long pause. last week was rough. I'll get to that in a later post.

For now - swamp canoe.

On Friday afternoon (over a week ago), Dad and I went for a canoe ride in Faver-Dykes State Park. You're able to rent canoes there and then peruse the Pellicer Creek Aquatic Preserve or the headwaters of Pellicer Creek. We chose the headwaters direction since it would require us to paddle against the tide in the beginning and then have a smooth and easy paddle back to the dock. On my next trip, I am definitely going to check out the Aquatic Preserve.

Anyway, 4 miles of paddling brought us to the swamp, which was pretty rad. calm murky waters, beautiful palm trees, cedars, oaks and cypress trees. We encountered a fish that was gigantic, some cool birds and an alligator that i swear tried to swamp our canoe.

My trip to Florida was pretty amazing this time around. It's always a good time, but we really explored a lot of the more natural places of Florida, which actually was not that difficult to find.

Enjoy the pictures.

entering the swamp

The Captain steering us into the abyss

trust me, there's a bird there... and it looks cool when you blow it up

more swamp

egret

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