I was on the water at 9 am.
The usual down the Wekiva River, up Rock Springs Run.
No one paddling, Otter Camp and Indian Mound were empty. A canoe was beached at Big Buck.
Past Big Buck, I encountered the first downstream paddlers. A kayaker, followed a few minutes later by a solo canoer in a King's Landing Rental. I turned back at 11:10, after taking the above photo.
Passing Big Buck again, the canoer had stopped there, chatting with some hikers. I continued, taking a break at Indian Mound, taking a brief walk of my own.
Back in the yak, past Otter Camp.
Continuing down the Run.
It was so warm, that I saw turtles sunning from the start of the paddle. Surely, I'd see gators. Saw one, at it quickly went into the water.
Returning to the Wekiva, paddlers were talking about a monkey. On Rock Springs Run, just upstream of the confluence. From the description, brown, long tail, it had to be a rhesus monkey. Cold weather migrant from the Silver River?
I paddled back up the Run, then down the Wekiva, but it was gone.
I did see an otter.
Landed at 1:45. Took a hike, about 4 miles.
No deer on land or water today.
Snorkeled the minnow packed Wekiwa Spring.
2 comments:
Master Dave, I did paddle Rock Springs Run today. Made it all the way to Big Buck Camp(and 15 more minutes). For the first time took a pic of a deer, a doe, and also saw a gator so big that my heart almost came out of my chest. It caught me off guard since never imagine that something so big can be in such a shallow, and narrow, place. The gator near Big Buck after Indian Mound.Looking forward to the end of your tale.
Congrats on your first deer DK, or as I said over on the Greem Wave Forum,"Master Luis" Folks, Dark Knight saw, and has a photo of a coyote on the Hillsborough River. Something I have not done. As far as the big gator, I have seen a very big one on RSR. But its been a while. For a time last year it was hanging out on the curvy, wooded section just down Run of Otter camp.
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