We are still waiting for better weather and tides to take our power and sailboats out, but we had an early morning chance, between the rain squalls, to go kayaking on the south fork of the St. Lucie River. Launching at Hosford Park, we paddled with the current, which is usually negligible, but today was actually running a bit because of the king tides. We didn't see any cows or alligators along the shore as in previous trips, but did see a few turtles. I was surprised how clean this one was, considering the mucky dark water it had crawled out of.
We are always amazed to see sailboats this far up the river, which means it must be deep enough to accommodate their draft. Ironically, 'Peace & Quiet' is the exact opposite of where this sailboat is docked. The house is along very busy and noisy Kanner Road.
There seems to be quite a few abandoned boats on this part of the waterway. Perhaps this boat's owner didn't have too many 'smart-s' after all. The name was a play on words like Dave named his Hope Town Box Cart Derby entry 'Rat Sass'.
One of the interesting sights along the way was this homemade pontoon boat made out of auxiliary airplane wing fuel tanks.
At our turn-around point at one of the intersections of the river, we came across this gorgeous huge motoryacht. It certainly must be interesting docking it in the narrow waterway.
When Dave saw this boat, he said he wanted to buy it just to clean it up. My reply..."Uhhhh, no way Dave!"
We saw lots more, but it was a repeat of past paddling adventures that I have posted about. We did have perfect timing this time around though, since it started pouring rain as soon as we got back home!
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