Rock Creek Run

After our short drive from Silver Lake to Wekiva State Park we decided that Tuesday would be a nice day to spend on Rock Creek Run. It is a 8-1/2 mile paddle down a beautiful river with lots of wildlife. We  saw 6 small gators, many big turtles, an otter that kept swimming in front of the canoe and lots of birds. It was a mostly sunny day in the low 80’s.

We stopped for lunch at Otter Camp the third campsite we saw along the river.

We needed to kill some time since the shuttle pickup is at 4 pm, which was 5 hours from when we put in.  We still got to the take-out by 3 PM and had a nice rest under their covered picnic area. King’s Island personnel were great and helped me unload and load the canoe onto our motorhome.

They said in the summer they put over 100 boats a day on this section. Today they had two other private kayakers besides us. There were a couple of other boats paddling this section but we were really by ourselves the entire day.

Peggy saw this very tame Egret or Heron standing there watching us load up.

We leave here tomorrow afternoon to put our RV in storage for a few weeks at a KOA near the Orlando Airport. We will fly back from the beautiful 80^oF sunny FL weather to the freezing snow covered Cleveland, OH area. But, we will spend Christmas with our 4 married children, their spouses and our 16 grandchildren. By this time in our trip we always miss the family, so we love going home, but we will continue our FL  trip right after the new year.