Between the bird keys
Before the dusk wind picked up, we paddled between the Bird Keys mangrove islands at Jim Nelville Preserve.
Kayaking Oleta River State Park
Kayaking the mangrove tributaries of Biscayne Bay in Oleta River State Park, we encountered calm water and a light breeze.
Wood Stork at Loxahatchee Nat’l Refuge
My goal has been to sight and photograph another Wood Stork at LNWR since we saw one of the endangered wading birds a few weeks ago. I saw this one when coming in from kayaking the refuge’s kayak/canoe trail.
“Nothing anywhere else is like them…”
“There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.” — Marjory Stoneman Douglas… It got silent in our kayak, somewhere past the half-way mark of the 5.5-mile canoe trail through Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.
Kayaking Oleta River State Park
Kayaking back into the red mangroves, it gets quieter, the water a clear green. But the seven o’ clock breeze is what we really notice. It comes every few minutes and moves through us. The sky is a light blue, opaque in the west where a few puffs of clouds gather, and the sun is making its descent.
