Cedar Key

We've moved. Cedar key is on the gulf coast a little south of where the Suwannee river ends. We're in a commercial RV park. We heard about this park from one of those friendly fellow campers we met someplace before now. A cold front came through last night so the highs will only be in the 60s. I had to wear a long sleeve shirt this morning. This place is supposedly famous for its sunsets. Getting pictures of sunsets is kinda hard because of the location of the sun in relation to the camera. In this pic I'm on the left.

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Kayak on the Silver River

The river flows through the park but it's over a mile hike on a sandy trail to get to it, we put in at a county park 4 miles below the park and paddled up stream. The actual "Silver Spring" was another couple of miles. We saw tons of wildlife. No swimming or fishing is allowed and even the turtles wouldn't budge when we paddled by. The birds didn't care. We could have whacked them with a paddle. We saw a bunch of alligators. We made it all the way to the spring and turned around. The river starts at the spring and the water is crystal clear. We were on the water for nearly 5 hours. Here are a couple of pics of the trip.

Up the creek

Watch "Jenny paddles the Silver river" on YouTube

Florida finally

We will be spending the next 3 days at Silver River state park near Ocala Fl. The silver river flows from silver spring, which is a tourist attraction. We're going to spend a few hours paddling the river tomorrow. After we got set up today we did some exploring on our bikes. We were off road most of the time. There was some deep sand in places, making progress difficult. Forecast temp tomorrow is 82.

Paddling the crooked

I rode the trails this morning and we got the kayaks wet this afternoon. We got some tide advise from a ranger yesterday. We left the ramp about an hour before low tide and rode the current out. We explored a couple of tributary rivers for an hour or so and then turned around and rode the rising high tide back to our car. This is way different than I would have done it. We'll be here one more day.

Still in Georgia

We're having a heck of a time getting into Florida. We drove a couple of hours south on I 95 and are currently still in Georgia. We're right on the border at Crooked River State Park, near St. Mary's GA. We've decided that state parks afford more opportunity for doing stuff. We rode bikes for awhile this afternoon and then went into historic St. Mary's for some hors d'oeuvres. Tomorrow we will kayak on the Crooked River, which reportably, has a 6 knot tidal current. We might be washed out to sea.