Canoe Outpost, Wimauma, Fla

Little Manatee River (September 2025)

Canoe / kayak launch and campsite.

 

 

 

Early handmade canoe built at the Outpost.

 

 

 

An old International school bus once used at the Outpost as a rentable sleeping quarters.

  

 

 

 

Dryman Bay, Osprey, Fla

Mangrove islands

From Hurricane Helene's strong tidal surge, a boat found deposited, hidden amongst the thick mangroves.

 

  

 

A collapsed boat house left barely standing after last year's back-to-back Hurricanes Helene & Milton.

 

 

 

South Creek (Oscar Scherer State Park)

 

 

Myakka

Upper lake

 

 

 

 

gobblers

 

tree gobbler

 

 

Myakka River in drought conditions

 

 

Sweetheart couple. Bull gator with mate. 

paddling home

 

 

Upper Manatee River

Ray's Canoe Hideaway

Manatee County, October 2025

 

 

 

 

 

Manatee River near the pioneer town of Rye. Brackish water, low tide 

 

 

 

 

A new Midnight Pass

 August 2025

 

 

 

 

new persona (I’m not there)

After ordering a small chest-of-drawers, about six or seven weeks ago, a wooden shipping crate arrives, addressed to myself, but only using Chinese characters. Apparently shipped out on a slow boat somewhere out'ta China.

My 'mail-to' name in caps, with our new, and latest address listed below.