This will be my second season as a guide for the Florida Keys Wildlife Society’s Full Moon Kayak Trips . We head out from the Old Wooden Bridge Marina on Big Pine Key, across the channel and first to a mangrove tunnel before paddling around the northern tip of No Name Key. A few of us got together this past Saturday to check out and trim the tunnel. Afterwards we paddled through another longer tunnel to a salt pond, which is basically a tidal lake.
Anytime you go off-road here things can get interesting. This adventure proved the rule. The tunnel was long and difficult with branches we had to climb over or limbo under. Once we hit the lake, we felt like we were in a different world. Surprisingly there wasn’t a lot of fish or bird life, but that might be due to the tide and heat.
When you come across a straight line in nature, it is a good possibility that man has been there. This was the case when we hit a straight path, with what appeared to be stepping stones crossing the pond. On the southern side was what had at one time been a house. Some satellite maps showed a mobile home which may have been destroyed by Huricanne Irma. All that is left was a house pad and a dirt road.
Across the way there is some kind of structure. Google Earth shows a trailer, but it is difficult to see an access road.
This will require further investigation, but for now it should work nicely for a location in the next Mac Travis Adventure.