Tag: Outdoors
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Good Morning
It currently is a bright sunny warm day, breezy (10-15 mph gusts to 30) day. It is a rest day for me @ Tomoka State park. I flew in here yesterday, having an 8 mph tail wind and tide in my favor, averaging 4 mph paddling. I reached nearly 5 mph at one point. Anyway…
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ON the water again! Whoot! Whoot!
So Thursday at 1:33am SpaceX had a launch. I’ll post the video when I am near power and possibly WiFi. Anyway, I was up, the group had dispersed and there was NO wind. I packed up, dilligently not quickly and got on the water @ 5am. It was a 21 mile day. A light head…
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Life at the campground
Another windy day today 30 plus mph, so I am still grounded. I thought I would show you some pics of the campground, and its visitors. First some of the friends that pass through: Here is a pic of another camper I thought was cool: You can get more of his story on Facebook; lookup Milk Truck…
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Update and New Page: My Gear
So I am still at Manatee Hammock campground in Titusville Florida. Sunday was a wet rainy (Rainy day Sundays always get me down) morning and then again in the early evening. Apparently there was a bad twister(?) in the Jacksonville area and we felt some of the effects. I weathered the storm (mainly dry) and got up…
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Update
Well the hand is much better. If the weather forcast was better I might have moved on. Today was very nice but Sun and Monday are rain and wind days. So I am here until at least Tuesday. That will give the hand more time to heal anyway. So what have I been doing while…
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Rest day #2
Today was a banner day. Started with hash and eggs for breakfast and then off to meet a new friend. Luke had left a message on my kayak about meeting, however I missed him last night and so we connected this morning. He was wondering if I would be around long as he has a…
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The first rest day
Today is a beautiful day. Walked to Publix and got some groceries and more Naproxen Sodium for my wrist, it feels better but still hurts when carrying or putting much weight on it. It is still swollen, red and hard to the touch. So I am extending my rest through tomorrow. Hopefully that will allow me to be okay…
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Good evening all
I am now 2nd day into my trip. Left Melbourne Beach around 8 yesterday, traveled 16 miles against the wind but made it to my goal destination. Nothing to note about yesterday other than the wind, and my right hand is in pain. Today however was much better. Little wind in the morning, fading to…
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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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