NYCkayaker Kayaking in Florida: Winter 2007

Wed Jan 3 23:28:57 EST 2007

Hi All:

My annual  invitation from the South------

I live in Fort Lauderdale in the Winter  and in Yonkers in the Summer(YPRC). 

If you wish to kayak in my neck of the woods this winter, I would be glad  to 
show you around.

Each Tues. and Thirs my Florida kayaking group goes  on a day trip. We meet 
at 10AM and launch at 10:30. Our trips usually run 10  miles. We stop midway 
for lunch either at a restaurant or at a beach( picnic) . 

On weekends two clubs run trips--Blazing Paddlers based in Fort Lauderdale  
and Paradise Paddlers based in Key Largo. Often these club trips are multiday  
kayak camping adventures

Florida offers both urban and rural paddling. 

Last Tuesday we paddled from the Pelican Harbor on the 79th Street  Causeway 
in Miami south 5 miles on Biscayne Bay. We had a picnic lunch  on Flagler 
Memorial Island(Monument Island). Then we paddled north and east  along Indian 
Creek in Miami Beach taking us past the Fountainbleau and Eden Roc  hotels. This 
total circuit was 13.4 miles. 

Tomorrow we launch from Oleta State Park in North Miami. Perhaps  we'll 
paddle out to the Ocean thru the Haulover Inlet. Maybe  we'll go north on the 
Oleita River or maybe north on the Bay.  

A partial menu of local trips in addition to those mentioned already:  
1. Miami River
2. Pioneer Park in Deerfield Beach
3. Circumnavigate Virginia Key with a stop at Jimbos
4. Key Largo--Largo Sound and/or Duesenberry Creek
5. Circumnavigate Wilton Manor
5. George English Park in Fort Lauderdale and the Fort Lauderdale Canals  
leading to the New River
6. Holland Park/West Lake in Hollywood and up Whisky Creek abd maybe exit  to 
Ocean through Port Everglades
7. Coral Gables waterway with a stop at the Biltmore Hotel
8. Turner River in Everglades City

Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami again has a wonderful glass exhibit  by 
Dale Chihuly. Seeing his creations after dark on Thurs evenings all  lit up 
among hundred and hundreds of plants !!!! Totally different experience  from 
seeing them during the day.

A link to this exhibit is:
_http://www.fairchildgarden.org/Chihuly/exhibition.html_ 
(http://www.fairchildgarden.org/Chihuly/exhibition.html) 

 (http://www.clydebutcher.com/events.cfm) 

If you make it down, the daily costs need not be large. Motels two  miles 
from the Fort Lauderdale Airport on State Road 84 are only $75  per night. And 
these motels are a ten minute walk to a put-in on the South Fork  of the New 
River. So you could closeup your office in NYC at 5PM and be in  your kayak 
before Nightline signs off--the same  night.

Or find a relative in Century Village and pay them a surprise visit !!!!  
Everybody knows that if you pick the right day, Jet-Blue brings you  down 
here from Kennedy OR LaGuardia  in STYLE for only $69

The  surf temperature is 69F. So, if you wear a wet suit, you might overheat 
!!!! And  the locals might giggle

I have sit-on-top and one guest sea kayak I would  be happy to lend you. Or 
maybe I can get one of my Florida friends to help  out SO--

COMEON DOWN
For a week or a long weekend.
Before you come  you might want to go to Barnes and Nobles or Borders and 
pick up Nigel Foster's  SEA KAYAKING IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA

Let me know by e-mail or phone if you  want any assistance so that you can 
get right on the water when your plane  lands.

See you on the water
Jerry Blackstone
cell  (914)318-4630
home (954)776-2657

PS--I still prefer paddling the Hudson Valley and  New York Harbor.. But that 
is for another  time
JB

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