Florida Everglades
I know some of you here are kayakers and canoers and yesterday we paddled the Turner river off the Tamiami Trail in Big Cypress Preserve/ Everglades N.P.
For anyone planning to paddle it, it is just the opposite of last winter with very high water.
The high water combined with a high tide, makes for getting as low as you can in your kayak/canoe every fifteen feet in the mile long mangrove tunnels to keep from getting decapitated or worse yet strangled by the strangler fig branches.
It is still fun though, and they must have had a very wet summer because the pond lilies are absolutely beautify and their dinner plate sized pads are lush and green as well as the eight foot high grass cane that envelops you are.
The gators are as plentiful as ever ,and the larger ones won't move and will give you the evil eye as you pass within five or six feet of them
Jack L
For anyone planning to paddle it, it is just the opposite of last winter with very high water.
The high water combined with a high tide, makes for getting as low as you can in your kayak/canoe every fifteen feet in the mile long mangrove tunnels to keep from getting decapitated or worse yet strangled by the strangler fig branches.
It is still fun though, and they must have had a very wet summer because the pond lilies are absolutely beautify and their dinner plate sized pads are lush and green as well as the eight foot high grass cane that envelops you are.
The gators are as plentiful as ever ,and the larger ones won't move and will give you the evil eye as you pass within five or six feet of them
Jack L
