Florida Paddle 23

 Florida Paddle - that’s a wrap. 75 miles. Six campgrounds. See you next year.

Kayaking - West Lake

 Today we put our boats in at the Grayton Beach boat ramp. There are about five parking spots there and see concrete ramp down into the water – a very easy put in. We paddled out into the lake around the grasses, and then we paddle back into the same direction, and headed out towards the golf here. The water is very shallow, botanic color, surrounded by white dunes and grasses and it’s a very easy paddle with beautiful scenery all around on one side of the lake or some big beautiful beach homes east another side parallels the shore, and on the other side of the lake, we could see the Grayton Beach Park trails. Here we paddled a total of 3 miles under bright blue skies and I 70° weather. It was beautiful.

Kayaking - Sopchoppy River

 We drove to Myron Hodge city Park Campground, which is very close. This is a small but nice park and they are even 20 RV sites with full hook ups. There’s a beautiful long dock that goes out over the water. We launched turbos into the river, and it was a pretty paddle. At the beginning. We passed by some flowering trees, and again it was the brown Tanic water. After a while we realized that we were going against the wind, and there was not much current, and there were still quite a ways to get to the king, we looked at our phones and were able to figure out the aqua Connie trail was nearby. So we ventured off into the marsh among the tall grasses to navigate back to the campground. We did have to stop a few times as they were new stop signs, street signs or directional arrows , it was very interesting and kind of fun, but not an easy paddle. Even before we got into that trail, a boat stopped to talk with us. I think he was surprised that we were out there we made it to the campground paddling a total of 9 miles . Scotty then rode his bike back to get the truck.