![]() ![]() John and Allagash and around Moosehead and the Rangeley Lakes.Īfter studying the three nautical NOAA charts (see appendix for numbers) I was hooked. It could not be much worse than May and June in our north woods, which I have survived on several longer trips down the St. Winter and Spring, I also read, were the least buggy seasons down there, and coming from Maine, I thought, what are a few bugs. And then there were the bug, snake and gator infested Okefenokee swamp and the equally notorious Everglades, or were they?Īfter some background checks, the 100-mile-long tidal estuary of the Everglades National Park from Everglades City in the north to Flamingo in the south sounded more and more enticing. ![]() The Rio Grande appealed to me, but only if there is enough water in it, which is not always the case. It had to be in the US and south where it is warm that time of year. So, what’s out there in the fun department for paddlers? First descents in China or Chile were definitely too extreme for me and financially totally out of reach. I was getting tired of beating up on the younger fellows in our Spring whitewater canoe races and needed something new to dip my paddle into, something warm, for a change, with some navigational challenge, if possible. I am but a snow bird from the cold northland of Maine, who, after watching his students for 30 years migrating south during Spring break, finally decided to join the fun in the sun, but in my own special way. I am even farther removed from those total immersion year-round dwellers of the Glades. Ten years in the everglades…well, not really not like the old timers Gregorio Lopez, Arthur Darwin or the notorious Ed Watson, and not even like the more recent Evergladians like Totch Brown or my Chokoloskee friend Thornton. ![]()
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