Tag: Adventure
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One more try
So, if at first you don’t succeed …. I am going to give it a second go at completing my quest. After watching Mark Ervin’s YouTube channel (see a the 4/14/23 post about him), purchasing and repairing a longer Kayak, and doing my lessons learned of my first attempt; I decided to give it another go. As…
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A quick update:
Hi everyone, and thanks for following. I have decided to give the ICW trip one more go but more on that in the next post. Here I want to welcome the folks that are new to this blog and let “all y’all” (pretty good southern for a Yankee, huh) know what I have been up to. First…
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Some said I was ambitious.
I want to promote this gentleman, Mark Ervin, ( https://www.mark-ervin.com/ ) and his paddling adventure. Something so much bigger than my trip. He is still going strong currently in North Carolina. Please check him out and his Greater Loop trip, he also has a YouTube channel to chronical his trip and where you can donate…
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Just a reminder
This is just a reminder that I will be at Laurel Hill church (1919 New Market Rd, Varina Va.) at 10:AM Saturday 3/25. You are all invited to the review of my trip, hopefully just a 30 to 45 min review. I’ll also have lots of pictures afterward you can watch as long as you…
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An Invitation:
Hi everyone – I am sorry I haven’t been diligent with posting after leaving the ICW. However, you are invited to a short presentation of the trip that I will be giving on 3/25/23 at 10AM. I will be talking about all that I did, posted and are about to do. Please come if you…
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Some Data
So the picture above is from the tracking map and shows the entire trip. 168 miles from Miami to Melbourne Beach Fla. I am good with my decision to stop but not happy it is over. I am looking forward to the Sept. NFCT (Northern Forrest Canoe Trail) trip. A trip that will be much…
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Day 13 Thank you all
What a day! Wind and tide were with me today and I made great time. I have not checked but I but I would guess about 3.5 mph or better. I left Sebastian at 7:50am and arrived in Melbourne Beach at 1:20pm. Per the navagation tool that is a 18.9 mile paddle. I straightened out…
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Day 12 The Good the Bad and the Ugly
I was told that some of y’all wanted to hear everything not just the great stuff. So here goes: Lets start with the good stuff: The Bad and Ugly:
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Day 11
Mornings are NOT my time of day, to say the least. It took me 2.5 hrs to get going this morning. I finally left at 8 am. I started with very light winds, they built but not to a very bad situation, mostly below 10 MPH. I was very lucky that they were out of…
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