I am a Japanese female who came to the U.S. for the research opportunity as a scientist.
In my free time, I go hiking, backpacking, XC skiing. I love to be in the deep wilderness. I write my adventures from all over the world and Introduce the beauty of nature, from a viewpoint of Japanese.
日本出身の女性研究者かつハイカー。
休日はハイキング、バックパッキング、クロスカントリスキーなどで多忙。
日本人の視点から見た世界中の自然の美しさを、読者が旅をしているような感覚で読んで頂ければと思い、このブログを作成。
2019-04-20
Florida Canoe Backpacking in Everglades Day1
This is my first canoe backpacking trip.
I went to Everglade National Park for Christmas vacation. I knew that a lot of East coast people go to Florida for winter vacation. So I looked up what there are in Florida. Then I found three National parks. Everglades is a good start to try. So I went there.
On the first day of trip, we flew to Fort Meyers. We arrived there in the evening, so just car camped that night at Big Cypress National Preserve.
The next day in the early morning, left the campground at 6:30 a.m. Then we rented a canoe at Everglade hostel. This hostel rent a canoe with reasonable price. Then we went to Flamingo Visitor Center at Everglade National Park. Luckily permits are available for each campsites/chickee.
Day1 of canoe backpacking trip, we started at Flamingo then started canoeing along the shore. Before this trip, I had canoed only once. That one was only 1 hour on the lake, not even canoe camping like this one. Only with 1 hour canoe experience, the second canoeing is 5-day canoeing. It was kind of aggressive.
I paddled at the front. A front person is not able to control the direction. In other words, a front person don't need to think about the direction: it is for me.
Compared to New England, Florida is obviously so warm. I was so happy being in the sun and staying warm. In addition to that, I am in the wilderness. That is more than everything I want.
The water is sometimes brown creamy, sometimes very blue. There are many mangroves. It is very different scenery from anywhere in the U.S. Not far from the trailhead Flamingo, we already saw alligator. Wow. Animals in tropical. It is very exciting doing canoe backpacking.
Day1 the paddling was not too hard, because of tide and winds. They helped a lot. This day we camped at East Cape. There are designated camping spots on the beach in Everglades. Of course literally there is no toilet or sign on the "designated" campsite beach, but still there are for National Park to track who are camping when.
It was amazing to see the big beach in a total quiescence. Nobody was there on the beach. The beach was private that day. We ate dinner while watching sun setting over the ocean. It was beautiful and peaceful.
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