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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Coldwater Creek

Taking the weekend off for our visitors from Tampa and dodging thunderstorms brought us to Wednesday August 5th. Chris and I decided to paddle Coldwater Creek from Springhill Road bridge to the old steel bridge. Our disappointment was once we passed Adventures Unlimited the garbage was over powering down to the steel bridge. A photo above is of a pile of garbage on a sandbar. Beer cans were strewn about. Disgusting. Bob's Canoes was launching tubers with their cooler of beverages as we were taking out. To make things worse, we accidentally locked our keys in the trunk of our car. We called a locksmith from Pensacola to come out to the creek and open our car.


Springhill Road bridge.


Pile of garbage. Tubers at the old steel bridge.

Posted by gpax at 7:26 AM

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  • ▼  2009 (37)
    • ▼  August (8)
      • Date with a Surgeon
      • Turkey Creek
      • Econfina Creek Again
      • Boiling Creek
      • Econfina Creek
      • Night Paddle in Fundy Bayou
      • Coldwater Creek
      • Chris's birthday and Rachel's shower
    • ►  July (14)
      • Low water on Big Escambia Creek
      • Big Sabine Point Primitive Campground
      • Alaqua Creek
      • Jack on Big Juniper Creek
      • New Redfish 14 Cracks in same place
      • Turkey Creek in Okaloosa Co. [Eglin AFB]
      • 45.0 miles per gallon
      • Last day in Gatlinburg
      • Back to Gatlinburg
      • Edith's 90th Birthday Party in Charleston, WV
      • Gatlinburg, Tennessee
      • Tennessee Mountain Air
      • Sepulga River
      • 4th of July in Pensacola
    • ►  June (11)
      • Joe Settles In After Two Weeks
      • New VW Jetta SW TDI
      • Juniper Creek Revisited
      • Upper Big Coldwater Creek
      • New Redfish 14 Arrives
      • Pictures win in Photo Contest
      • Big Juniper Creek
      • Titi Creek
      • Farewell Redfish14
      • Max, our nephew passes
      • Rachel, new daughter [in-law]
    • ►  May (4)
      • My Redfish14 is unsafe to paddle.
      • East Bay River and Live Oak Creek
      • Working at Home
      • Big Juniper Creek

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Pensacola, FL, United States
In April 2008 I coached my last game after 14 years as a high school coach. My wife, Chris, and I bought kayaks. We started kayaking Pensacola Beach, Perdido Key and Big Lagoon State Park. When jelly fish moved in, we moved up the creeks and rivers of Northwest Florida. There we met members of the West Florida Canoe and Kayak Club and joined. Over the course of our first year we have paddled at locations from the Styx River in Alabama down to Sanibel Island in South Florida and swam with the manatees in Crystal River. I began taking kayaking photos and posting them, along with trip reports, regularly on Green Wave Forum. During the winter of 2009 I took a photography class and won a drawing at NikonUSA for a new D90 camera. My 1970's photography passion was rekindled. In one year we have filled our garage with two Hobie mirage pedal drive kayaks [mine with sail], a Wilderness Tarpon 120, a Heritage Redfish 14 and a Kestrel 160 sea kayak. Football injured knees of my youth haunt me. After five surgeries, I gave up running and hiking as well as long distance bicycling. Now I swim and paddle.
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