Guided Kayak
Trip and Wild Dolphin Encounter
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On Tuesday we had a full day on this pre-booked trip. We drove to Key
West and arrived at Stock Island well before the 9.15 am starting
time, to commence our journey around the nearby mangrove islands. The
water was very shallow and although we had no experience of kayaking,
we splashed around and just about kept up with the other
participants. By the time our excursion was nearly over, some two and
a half hours later, we had just about discovered how to steer our
kayak properly! The trip was very enjoyable and we stopped at several
islands and were shown sea wildlife that our guide took from the
water. On the way back we passed through a narrow channel, overgrown
with mangroves and one of our party overturned her kayak and it took
a while to get her back into the kayak and on her way again.
We then drove a mile or so to the Oceanside Marina and boarded our
boat for the afternoon trip, which was searching for wild dolphins.
Our captain was a lady called Sheri, and she provided an entertaining
afternoon for us in her boat. We were soon in Florida Bay, having
driven under the US 1 road bridge and the old rail bridge. We managed
to get close to four or five dolphins and spent time following their
movements. We were told that the previous week there had been dozens
of them around, but at least we did get to see some. We then anchored
up and the other three members of our trip spend half an hour or so
snorkeling on the reef. We then had an extremely fast and bumpy ride
back to port. It was a great day out. Captain Sheri has a web site at wildaboutdolphins.com
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