Yesterday we returned home from Florida. The last few days were kind of a blur. We paddled on Friday on the Wekiva river. We have been paddling a quite a bit with a group from Minnesota. On Friday I paddled stern with Ed Arenz and Terese paddled with Todd Johnson. It was great to have paddled with some new people and I enjoyed being in the stern again.
We started out on our journey headed up a pretty windy and shallow little stream on rock creek spring, with hopes to make it to the top of the spring. Unfortunately there was not much water in this section of the river so after about a half an hour or so some of the group turned around and headed back down stream, once we noticed we lost a few boats we all turned around as a group and headed down to find them. As we made our way down to the Wekiva River we asked a few other rec paddlers if they had seen anyone go by in similar boat and sure enough lots of people had seen them so we knew we were on the right track, especially since you could really only go two ways up where we were or downstream. We caught up with the boats soon enough and decided to have a quick little snack in the boat. Normally one would think a granola bar or fruit would be ideal but the bow person in my boat Todd, from Minnesota had other plans. He asked that I pull closer to another boat near us so he could use there deck as a table. I wasn’t to sure what he was planning so of course I obliged the request, as we got closer to Christina and Julie, Todd began pulling out all the fixings for a full deli. I have seen a lot of things in my time in the boat but cold cuts packed under a seat hadn’t crossed my mind. After the Minnesotan’s whipped up a few sandwiches and quickly ate we were on our way. That’s the nice thing about being in Florida, lots of different paddlers and all sorts of fun personalities to meet along the way. Knowing this would be our last day on the water with the group I think we all had a little extra silliness in us. We finished out the trip with three and half hours logged in and lots of laughs along the way. We said our goodbyes to the Minnesotans and Jeff, Christina, Betsy, Travis and I made our way more east to Jeff and Susan’s home for one last night in sunny Florida.
We ended out the week with a short paddle on the intercoastal waterway near Jeff's home bringing our total hours for the week up to 29 hours, not bad for a weeks worth of vacationing. Hopefully we make our way back down to Florida and get to paddle with all the great people again soon.
We started out on our journey headed up a pretty windy and shallow little stream on rock creek spring, with hopes to make it to the top of the spring. Unfortunately there was not much water in this section of the river so after about a half an hour or so some of the group turned around and headed back down stream, once we noticed we lost a few boats we all turned around as a group and headed down to find them. As we made our way down to the Wekiva River we asked a few other rec paddlers if they had seen anyone go by in similar boat and sure enough lots of people had seen them so we knew we were on the right track, especially since you could really only go two ways up where we were or downstream. We caught up with the boats soon enough and decided to have a quick little snack in the boat. Normally one would think a granola bar or fruit would be ideal but the bow person in my boat Todd, from Minnesota had other plans. He asked that I pull closer to another boat near us so he could use there deck as a table. I wasn’t to sure what he was planning so of course I obliged the request, as we got closer to Christina and Julie, Todd began pulling out all the fixings for a full deli. I have seen a lot of things in my time in the boat but cold cuts packed under a seat hadn’t crossed my mind. After the Minnesotan’s whipped up a few sandwiches and quickly ate we were on our way. That’s the nice thing about being in Florida, lots of different paddlers and all sorts of fun personalities to meet along the way. Knowing this would be our last day on the water with the group I think we all had a little extra silliness in us. We finished out the trip with three and half hours logged in and lots of laughs along the way. We said our goodbyes to the Minnesotans and Jeff, Christina, Betsy, Travis and I made our way more east to Jeff and Susan’s home for one last night in sunny Florida.
Todd making sandwiches on the boat deck, one of the most interesting things I have seen done in a canoe.
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