Still looking at a good possible single overnight paddle. Being on the east coast myself I thought this site might be a possibility? Anyone ever been to this site? Whats it like? How are the tides here? How bout the island itself? Whats its look like? Trees? Marsh? Marl? Mosquitoes?
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Not a great destination site in my opinion. Small, and just useful as a stop on the way to the larger and more interesting Little Rabbit Key.
I don't know where you are starting from, but it may be just as easy to get to the Gulf Coast as to the Keys or Flamingo. But a few good non-Gulf one-night solo trips are:
I'm partial to the beach islands, too. I see from your profile that you are in FTL, so look at Pavilion Key for a solo one-nighter out of Chokoloskee or Everglades City.
N Nest Key can be a party spot for groups from the Keys. No hiking trails, not a lot of interesting water around there either. I'd head to either of the chickees in FL bay for an awesome overnite experience that's not too far from Flamingo. You could also spend 2 days doing shorter trips using Flamingo as a base. With all the water in the marsh right now you could see a lot of variety. Have fun.
I was at Lane Bay Chickee, Pearl Bay Chickee and Lard Can yesterday and you guys
won't believe me but there were no bugs even at Lard Can despite the warm air temperature.
The water was still very paddleable at Mahogany Hammock.
Overnight trips abound, I'd bet the water will still be up for taking Taylor Slough down to
Ernest Coe Campsite then come down the slough the rest of the way through
Craigheads Pond and over to Nine Mile Pond on the second day.
Time it right and you'll meet up with the Criagheads Pond group on Saturday.
But what ever you do, if you're gonna do backcountry and why not? you can do salt water
anytime in the year, do it now the water is only going to go down.
That sounds GREAT being that I am actually off Fri and Sat. My only problem is that I'm not super experienced in navigating in mangroves and swamp, also my GPS doesn't have any TOPO or Aerial yet (I just got this one last week). The base map for down by Flamingo is practically useless, West lake is one of the smallest bodies of water on that base map :P.
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