This afternoon was warm and sunny with a milky blue sky. I knew that once the afternoon sea breeze started the air would chill quickly. So I did the best thing I could think of, I loaded a canoe and headed down to the Saint George River for an hour or two. The ice is out of Seven Tree Pond enough so that I could launch and paddle up into the river. The water level is very high, those of you that have been on this trip will remember the rock up river that is at least six feet above the water level in the summer was nearly covered with water. It had an ice cake on hung on top where the falling water level must have left it that looked very much like a white hat.
As the picture clearly shows because of the high water I was able to paddle well up into the woods and explore places that I cannot visit on summer trips. There was also a considerable amount of ice floating in the nearby backwater. The ring of wet in the trees shows how much the level has fallen in the last day or so. There were hundreds of ducks and a variety of species. Wood ducks, mallards, black ducks, ring necks, and a few mergansers all in brilliant spring breeding plumage. I was also able to paddle right up to a flock of turkeys as well.
Back home and at my desk again in a couple of hours, what a nice break!
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