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Here’s your chance to get up close to nature and live in another world for a few short hours. You are invited to join us.
What: Kayak or Canoe Trip at Fisheating Creek in Glades County
When: Starts promptly at 8 a.m. on Sunday, June 6
Where: Meet at the Fisheating Creek Campground in front of camp store.
Who: Fisheating Creek Sub-Chapter of the Florida Trail Association is hosting a 7-mile paddling excursion on Fisheating Creek from Burnt Bridge to the Fisheating Creek Campground. The wonders of this creek are legendary. You can bring you own canoe or kayak or rent one from the Fisheating Creek Outpost. Call for reservations at 863-675-5999.
Costs: This paddling trip is limited to the first 20 people who sign up. The fee is $15 to have your personal canoe (and each additional person $50) transported by the livery truck to the starting place at Burnt Bridge which is located on private property. To rent a canoe and be transported it is $50.
To learn more you can call FTA Activity Leader Bonnie Mc Laughlin at 239-233-9892, or Co-Leader Carol Grigsby at 863-465-2632 (eves.)
For more information about paddling Fisheating Creek go to the Fisheating Creek Outpost website at
Hardy FTA members, Carol GrigsBy and Bonnnie Mc Laughlin, dutifully checked out the route on Fisheating Creek from Burnt Bridge to Fisheating Creek Campground last Saturday in preparation for leading the trek this coming Sunday. I was concerned that the heat would be a problem but Bonnie told me it was pleasant on the water and a soft rain in the afternoon was refreshing. “It was seven miles of beauty,” Bonnie told me today. “We saw swallow tail kites, swallow tail butterflies, a turkey with a little one, and a deer. It was like kayaking through an emerald, it was so green that day” said Bonnie with enthusiasm. ”It was excellent.”
