Today was a “rest” day, this meant only a short paddle for the Wheelers. After the long paddle on day three and what we hear to be a tough day ahead of us on Thursday it seemed like a good idea to take it easy and stretch out the muscles. We put in at Homosassas River and paddled up to the Homosassas Spring hoping to see some manatees, apparently they really love this spot. We saw tons of signs on the way into the city for manatee tours, it seemed that it was almost a guarantee that we would see one but today they were shy or tired and not out for us to bump into. We did however get a great view of some more monkeys, these ones are living on an island close to the put in and to be honest with you I thought they were living the good life, they had a nice little house and tons of ropes to hang out on, who could ask for more?? Just to be clear on our monkey sightings these ones today were old retired circus monkeys so they were not nearly as wild as the ones we saw on the Silver Spring paddle from Day one.
After staring at the monkeys for a good ten minutes we headed out towards the ocean. The river was pretty large, big enough for boats that can handle the ocean of course since we were only a couple miles inland from the Gulf. The group all sort of stuck together and the pace was nice today since it was all the same people from the day before and we were all a little tired. I would like to call this trip our “house shopping” excursion, we paddled thru lots of little canals with many large and medium sized vacation homes and we all schemed and plotted about how we would save our money to buy up a vacation home that could accommodate all of our paddling friends. It was a great distracting conversation from the task at hand which was training of course but before we knew it 2 hours and 20 minutes had already passed and we were back at the put in for lunch. Travis, Betsy and I all headed back to the motel for some relaxing time and the others headed back out to the ocean in hopes of seeing some dolphins along the way.
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