2017
December 2017
Friday 1 December 2017
Fri 1 Dec to Tue 5 Dec. Float over Florida's most famed first magnitude spring and see monkeys dangling from cypress branches, a rich diversity of birds, while exploring an Old Florida land and waterscape on this 48-mile paddle down the Silver and Ocklawaha Rivers. Register by November 17.
Come with us on a spring-fed journey through the heart of Old Florida. Our four-day expedition will begin at Silver Springs State Park, home to Florida's most famed first magnitude spring. Paddlers will journey from the Silver to the Ocklawaha River on a gradually widening tree-canopied waterway offering views of a fantastic diversity of wildlife above and below the water’s surface. Our trip will conclude 46 miles downstream just above Rodman Dam.
At Orange Springs, musician Whitey Markle and the Swamprooters will perform their Swampgrass style of music, a mixture of bluegrass, folk, and country with a taste of old fashioned Florida Cracker thrown in for good measure ... Silver Springs. Bill Richards, 352-377-8342. Paddle Florida - [more][paddleflorida][email][events]