Celi Voyage – Everglades to Charlotte Harbor
Posted: April 29, 2011 Filed under: Florida, Gulf Coast | Tags: Adventure, Celi, Charlotte Harbor, Coast, Florida, Florida Bay, Mangroves Leave a comment
The Naples skyline fractures the horizon as the sun rises above the Florida peninsula as seen from the Gulf of Mexico after passing Cape Romano, which separates the Everglades wilderness from the densely developed southwestern coast.
Celi Voyage – Shark River
Posted: April 27, 2011 Filed under: Florida, Gulf Coast | Tags: Estuary, Everglades, Florida, Florida Wildlife Corridor, Mangroves, Shark River, Tarpon Bay Leave a comment
Paddling the remote Shark River near Tarpon Bay let my mind wander to earlier times when pioneering gladesmen like Totch Brown poled their flat-bottomed skiffs through the backwaters. Having traded wooden pole for carbon fiber paddle and plywood for fiberglass and foam, my YOLO board felt like a 21st century legacy of the original. Peering though the mangroves at eye-level, I hunted angles for evening photography instead of gators for hides or ibises for dinner.
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