Geo-Canoeing With Karen At Howard Park

We paddled 3.87 miles, chasing down 6 geocaches. The route we took and I'll explain some of the points of interest I marked on this track I pulled from my GPS...

Here we are, setting off for our first kayak / canoe geocache...

It looked like the first one is accessible from the open water side, so we got out and around to try and reach it.

Unfortunately, it looks like #1 is is actually along a kayak trail we must have passed by.

So, we made our way around this blue heron and dove back into the kayak trails.

Pushed our way deep into the mangroves...

...and came nose-to-nose with this sizable snake. It was tough to remain focused with this big guy nearby, so we figured we would come back for it later.

This is what our quarry looks like. We need to find 6 of these so we can find the codes and put them together in order to find the final cache.

The codes are written inside the caps of the containers and as you can see, I removed the code to keep from giving it away.

Mahalo! Our Florida Wahini says hello...

Looks like Karen found another one in the trees...

When we moved out to the open water side again, I came across this welk eating this smaller, unfortunate critter.

The on-the-roof setup we used to get the canoe here and back.

Yeah, it might look funky, but it sure did the job for us.

After we finished with the kayak caches, we looked for a couple of other caches in Tarpon Springs nearby. Karen was intrigued by the monument and spent some time reading it.

Well, that was our trip to Howard Park and the surrounding areas, who knows when we'll try another kayak / canoe cache? We'll see...