Well, nearly a year to the day after my first paddle here in the South, I succesfully found the Indian Mounds...thanks to GPS and National Geographic Topo. I rode to Stagecoach Inn with Fritz, and when we arrived, we found twenty boats in the parking lot, mostly canoes. This wasn't what I had in mind for my first run as trip leader, but luckily most of the boat belonged to the West Florida Canoe Club who were heading to Majors Creek. So, the six of us paddling to the Indian Mound headed off to Rice Creek Landing to start the paddle. It was easy paddling, and the humidity wasn't too bad..it helped having the boat already together before I got to the put-in. A couple gators were sighted near the southeast end of Richardson Island, and Fritz spotted an owl along Bayou Jessamine. Finding the mound turned out to be relatively easy with GPS and a dry trail to follow (last year, it was chucking it down with rain). So, we hiked on up to the top and then hiked back to the boats for a quick swim and lunch break. Lemon Cremes a success, yet again! The paddle back was relatively uneventful, lot of birds in Bayou Jessamine...and the water was quite a bit lower than on the way out..but we managed to make it back. At the end of the, day we covered 10.3 miles overall, with 3h 14m moving time, and about 5 hours from kayaks offloaded from vehicles to reloaded for the trip home.
Can you see the owl?
Now?
No frost equates to bloody great insects!
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