We signed up for a 5 hour canoe trip up and down the Turner River in the Big Cypress. Beautiful day around 80 degrees. Saw all kinds of birds and alligators. A big challenge was going through the mangrove tunnels, I had to sit on the bottom of the canoe for my head to clear limbs, Nita leaned backwards on her seat and about overturned us several times. It was so confining in the tunnels you couldn't use the paddles, just grabbed the mangrove roots and limbs and pulled the canoe through. After 2 1/2 hours we made a swampy stop shown, men went right and women left for some relief, not any cover, a quick glance to the right revieled a lot of white butts in the swamp. A great trip even if a little ambitious for 2 old farts, Nita moaned and groaned all the way home.
This morning we left Collier-Seminole and said goodbye to our friends Mick and Doris Faye. We are on our way to a Corp of Engineers park on a canal that controlls the flow from Lake Okechobee called Ortona South.
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