To commemorate eleven years of Everglades adventures, I had special t-shirts made…
The design is based on rock art I saw in Sweden with a boat (lower right) that looks suspiciously like a gator…
Back to the Everglades for an eight day expedition with my friend Al Borchers [photo gallery]. This year we decided to attempt some more difficult routes, starting with a long paddle to North River Chickee on the first day. It was quickly apparent that the “great freeze of 2010″ had occurred the week before—there were [...]
Yet another excellent adventure, this year with my youngest brother Bruce. We started at Coot Bay Pond and circled clockwise around Whitewater Bay. The first day was spent mostly paddling up the Joe River, where we saw manatee and dolphins galore. The Joe River Chickee faces west and we had an excellent sunset. The [...]
Instead of one long trip I took two shorter trips back to back this year. The first to Whitewater Bay was extreme in several respects. Significant wind, fog, mud, and traveling by moonlight. We were tripped up by low tide for several hours on the second day with only a Tricolor Heron for entertainment. [...]
I dubbed this year’s trip Challenging the Elements for good reason. By pure chance this was the most difficult trip yet. We started by navigating in the dark on the first day. This was not as bad as it sounds and turned out to be rather pleasant. The next day started out warm and sunny, [...]
Just back from my annual sojourn to the Everglades. I called this trip “Islands, Rivers and Bays” and we had a great time!
“There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.” - [...]
Just got back from a trip to the Everglades with my father. We had a great time circumnavigating Whitewater Bay.
We stopped at the Roberts River, Watson River, Oyster Bay, and South Joe chickees.
2007 Note: The beautiful mangroves and chickee at Oyster Bay were heavily damaged by a hurricane. Still a nice location, but [...]
This was the big one — the complete Wilderness Waterway from Flamingo to Everglades City. Of course we avoided the actual marked “trail” as much as possible. This was a real paddler’s trip. The trail is nominally 99 miles; I estimate we traveled more than 120 total. We went out to the Gulf twice and “boomeranged” back [...]
2000 The Beginning
2001 “The Nightmare” and Beyond
2002 Southern Sojourn
2003 Travels with My Uncle