Braden River 12/26/10

We met at Linger Lodge and headed upstream.

Here's Chad.

And Marie and Kurt.

This is the view we saw of Kurt most often during the morning. He finds a lot of birds. I'll bet he was great playing "Where's Waldo?"



After a wonderful lunch at the Lodge, we headed back out. It felt a bit colder.

So Marie dressed warmly.

After a short while, the sun came out brighter and it felt much warmer.

It is getting warmer and prettier.

And, it even turned sparkling.

Then, as often happens, it was getting late and time to head home.

After a fulfilling day on the water and in the lodge.

Weeki Wachee River December 23, 2010

Adrian at the beginning.

Dan with Adrian after her pre-lunch swim.

Dan SR. and Joe enjoy lunch. And then we are off to paddle downstream and find some manatees.

Whoopie! We found some at hospital hole.

Joe appears to be saying goodbye to you all.

Paddling with Manatees: Crystal River - December 4, 2010

Click on any photo to see a larger version of it.

A small group of us got together to enjoy a beautiful day looking for manatee and interesting places to paddle.

We were looking, looking, looking for them.

They seem to think they found some . . .

Then we decided to look for them at Three Sisters Springs before they left for the day.

So we headed back to Hunter Spring for lunch.

After which we saw a few manatee eating grass that was floating on the surface.









And then across the bay to a pristine area much different than where we had been.

Where we encouraged others to lead for a while. (Seems like Karen saw where Maureen was heading and decided to start drinking.)

And, with one last look at the wonderful day we had at Kings Bay we packed up with lots of memories . . . and these photos.