Beautiful, but shoirt, I soon reached the dam and turned back. Overcast, the Creek's many turtles weren;t yet out at 10:30. One alligator, in a cove where I saw manatees my last visit.
Down stream of the Port Malabar Road bridge, the banks are non-descript. Low lying, shrubbery. Lots of cotton like plants.
Maybe it is cotton, what do I know, I'm from Wisconsin. I did not see many birds, an osprey, a kingfisher, until I got into the area where the Creek gets wider near Goode Park. Usually a prime manatee spot.
The best birding spot was on the northeast corner of Palm Bay. Ibis, a great egret and a tricolred heron in the mangroves. Traffic on US 1 100 yards away. Missed the tricolored heron as two kids road their bikes on the dock to fish.
Palm Bay was choppy, I paddled about 2/3 of the way across to the Indian River, where whitecaps churned. So I turned back to the shelter of Turkey Creek.
Paddled back to the dam, then down stream to the launch site. A nice four hours on the water.
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