Recent content by Erica

When I lived in Ochopee, I’d slide the boat out for a moonlit paddle every full moon. One night turning from the deep canal into the wet prairie I crashed into something which thrashed around, knocking the boat around. It was over before I could get scared. I suspect it was a large gator, or...

Mohawk was a Florida based company. I love my Mohawk 13.

Outstanding!

Yay! Keep those little ones paddling. What a cutie!

It’s exciting to have the water chasing you. Camping in thé 10,000 Islands, a high tide and a storm brought the water within a foot of the tent. We were on the highest point of the little island. Luckily it stopped rising before it hit the tent.

Is that what it is. Bystander effect. Never heard if it. It explains some of the mysterious situations I’ve been in when I’ve been about the least qualified person to help, but the only one who does. The one that comes to mind was being in the woods with a class of grad students and two...

The fall right after the bridge looked pretty nasty. It wasn’t a falls as such but some fast water running into the ocean off Sulewasi. Kids were playing in it, having a blast. Brown, brown, brown. I was afraid if what poisons might be in the water.

My mistake, I remembered repced’s canoe as being red. I’m sure the water was much higher when you went through.

Much to the dismay of David Brower.

Florida has a lot of natural lakes and many of the spring fed rivers are not dammed. Fisheating Creek is not dammed but only because angry citizens objected. The further south you do, the more dams and other impediments impair water flow.

It sounds fantastic. Thanks for posting and I look forward to more.

I forgot to mention there are two magical scenes where their canoes wer surrounded by beluga whales, dozens and dozens of them boiling the water.

I just finished River of Fire: Conflict and Survival on the Seal River by Hap Wilson. It wasn't exactly what I expected. He takes almost of the first half of the book to cover preparation and history. Then begins the river trip report. There are problems from the beginning, even before the...

Lac du Poéte The Disney ride spit me out and into Lac de Poéte with a middling sized bay to the right. This was the very first place I recognized from my trips 30 years ago. Back then, lower water levels made this a muddy backwater, but at the time we were tired and it was the best we could do...

Sounds truly delightful. Thanks for sharing.