Did rock spring run, wekiva, and part of St. Johns river. This is a super trip, whether you do all or part.
Spent 1st. day an night at Kelly park. This is a super camp ground to stay. You can use tent or camper.
Had to run turkeys off of my site. Had half a day and night to kill before my partner met me. Seen a bunch of turkeys and two deer just walking around Kelly park. Seen were rock springs comes out of the ground. Water super clear. Cooked sausage and hoping john for supper. YUM
Put boats in about ¼ mile from Kelly park. 1st. day seen lot of birds, gators and one deer. checked out State campsites. Very nice. Could not get permit for site that we wanted. (Yes I will go anyway and stealth camp on state property.)
Spent the night on an island in lower wekevia. Took forever to find a place to stay. All of the river banks are very hard to find any kind of place to stay or land.
Went from rock springs run to where the wekiva starts. This is all super river country. Seen many wild turkeys and some very changing river. Goes from creek in the woods to open sloughs that are very wide. On the lower wekiva to the St. Johns is my favorite. This is the absolute best of the trip. So many turkeys and gators. I am not very impressed with gators but this section had my interests with big gators. Finished about 6 miles south of where wekiva river hits the St. Johns. Near I-4.
Average speed on rivers less than 2mi.hr.. Going up the St.. Johns I ran into a tree stump in about 4ft. of water and got stuck so bad I had to get my buddy to push me off. Thought I was going to break my boat trying to get out of the V shaped stump I was trapped in. This was embarrassing.
Cons. only three legal camping spots that I know of. Tried to get a launch area on the St. Johns to let us leave a truck overnight. No go. Offered the guy three times his launch fee. Could launch a trailer boat there and leave it overnight but could not just leave a truck there for any price. No outfitter on this run except for a short run down rock springs. (Maybe Lazy River Guy wants to expand.)
pros. good friend, no skeeters, great weather and lovely rivers. YES.
We both used differnt meals for our one night stay. my buddy used a meal that you just added water to make it heat up. Called heater meals. we were both inpressed. Box got scarey hot quick. I used mountain house meal where you add. boiling water. neither one of us was unhappy. We did have our old stand by's just in case. Try some of these. toby
Spent 1st. day an night at Kelly park. This is a super camp ground to stay. You can use tent or camper.
Had to run turkeys off of my site. Had half a day and night to kill before my partner met me. Seen a bunch of turkeys and two deer just walking around Kelly park. Seen were rock springs comes out of the ground. Water super clear. Cooked sausage and hoping john for supper. YUM
Put boats in about ¼ mile from Kelly park. 1st. day seen lot of birds, gators and one deer. checked out State campsites. Very nice. Could not get permit for site that we wanted. (Yes I will go anyway and stealth camp on state property.)
Spent the night on an island in lower wekevia. Took forever to find a place to stay. All of the river banks are very hard to find any kind of place to stay or land.
Went from rock springs run to where the wekiva starts. This is all super river country. Seen many wild turkeys and some very changing river. Goes from creek in the woods to open sloughs that are very wide. On the lower wekiva to the St. Johns is my favorite. This is the absolute best of the trip. So many turkeys and gators. I am not very impressed with gators but this section had my interests with big gators. Finished about 6 miles south of where wekiva river hits the St. Johns. Near I-4.
Average speed on rivers less than 2mi.hr.. Going up the St.. Johns I ran into a tree stump in about 4ft. of water and got stuck so bad I had to get my buddy to push me off. Thought I was going to break my boat trying to get out of the V shaped stump I was trapped in. This was embarrassing.
Cons. only three legal camping spots that I know of. Tried to get a launch area on the St. Johns to let us leave a truck overnight. No go. Offered the guy three times his launch fee. Could launch a trailer boat there and leave it overnight but could not just leave a truck there for any price. No outfitter on this run except for a short run down rock springs. (Maybe Lazy River Guy wants to expand.)
pros. good friend, no skeeters, great weather and lovely rivers. YES.
We both used differnt meals for our one night stay. my buddy used a meal that you just added water to make it heat up. Called heater meals. we were both inpressed. Box got scarey hot quick. I used mountain house meal where you add. boiling water. neither one of us was unhappy. We did have our old stand by's just in case. Try some of these. toby