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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Lower Wekiva River (From Katie's Landing)

Hawk

Today returned to the Lower Wekiva River where had a short but entertaining paddle. The opening pic shows a hawk in flight. While I believe it is a juvenile Red Shouldered Hawk, am not sure. It was not as vocal as the Red Shouldered Hawks are and when it made a sound, it was not the typical one from the mentioned birds. Can it be a Red Tailed Hawk? Maybe someone here can answer that.

Lower Wekiva River Turtle

Put In / Take Out: Katie's Landing. Please check previous posts from this location for fee and location information.

Ibis

On my way to Katie's Landing saw an old friend: The Bald Eagle at the intersection of Hwy 417 and CR 419.

Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle


Started my paddle under a beautiful warm morning. The time was 8:30 AM. As usual, explored the lagoon in front of Katie's but this time it did not produce too many pics. After the lagoon paddled through the West side of the little island down river, and the continued my way down river to the high grounds area. Let the current do most of the job so did not paddle too much. Here are the pics from this part of the trip...

Turkey

Tri Colored Heron

Tri Colored Heron

Green Heron

Green Heron

Young Little Blue Heron

Young Little Blue Heron

Ibis

Young Little Blue Heron

Young Little Blue Heron

Little Bird

Turtles

Son...Everything the water touches is our kingdom
Sure. Keep telling yourself that...(in response of the turtles conversation)

Took me three hours to reach my turning point, or maybe I should say that I turned around after three hours. Was past the high grounds. Here are the pics of my paddle up river...


Turkey


Little Blue Heron

Ahhhhh

Ahhhhh...livin' on a prayer!!!!!!!!!

Green Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

No other kayakers on the Lower Wekiva except for a fisherman who put in before me. One motor boat on my way down, one pontoon boat on my way up. Made it back to Katie's on one hour. Had a nice surprise there when met a  co-worker and her family on their fist kayak trip. On my way home spotted a pair of does on Wekiva Park Dr...

Contortionist Doe at Wekiva Park Dr

Deer

This is it for this one. Thanks for coming and check our Facebook Page for a few more pics of this and other trips. See you soon to share more Views From Our Kayak.


A light blue Nissan Versa with a big red yak on top spooked these two.

2 comments:

  1. I should have stopped. The deer pictures are great. As are all the others.

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    1. It is all good Master Dave. We will talk again soon.

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