Friday, May 23, 2008

Introduction

This site was born out of my frustration with being unable to find paddling sites that provided all the information I'd like to have about a new destination.

For instance, I've never seen a description of taking out at Wekiva Springs State Park that lays out just how painful the two-hundred yard uphill trudge through soft sand from the river back to the parking lot will be. Or that the Snow Hill Road take-out on the Econlockhatchee River has been rebuilt by the County with anti-erosion measures that will tear up the bottom of a boat.

Good maps, both road maps to the put-in or take-out and maps of the water itself seem unusually hard to find, as well.

So in these trip reports I'm going to try to provide the kind of information I'd be looking for when investigating a new destination ... hopefully you'll find it useful as well.

2 comments:

Rev. CMOT TMPV said...

I rather do like the title of this blog. Kinky in its own special way. You want to trade links from my blog to yours and vice versa?

Dave said...

I started my paddling site for much the same reason you did- provide the info I wish I had when I started out. Looking back, I have at least 4 mentions of the Wekiwa hill on Dave's Yak Tales:

drawback is the launch area is a long way from the parking area. A long drag/carry down a sand/dirt hill. Not bad on the way out, the hill seems like a mountain at the

I found your site from your post on the Green Wave Forum.

Happy Paddling !