Everglades Trip 2019 (Solo)
Draft, Converting Older Site
Richard Rathe, January 2019 (Camping, How_To)
I upped my sailing capabilities this year with a Hobie Islander and homemade benches of my own design. It performed well going downwind, in a pleasant breeze, to get to the far (southern) end of Pavilion Key, where I camped the first night. But alas the wind turned around and blew hard from the east. Even with the sail reefed I had a hard time steering. I bailed out and returned to Rabbit Key instead of going further south.
Part of my DIY project was to make the benches dual use. I removed them from the boat and put them together to make a nice sleeping platform on the beach. This worked very well, but it turned out they were too heavy for the boat, so I re-engineered them to be narrower and lighter for the next trip.
This is a quick-and-dirty gallery of my Everglades photographs. Only a placeholder for now while I work on converting my older sites. See my Everglades Wilderness Guide for more trips, maps, & photographs.
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