{"id":5457,"date":"2015-12-31T06:27:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T11:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=5457"},"modified":"2016-03-26T20:04:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T01:04:03","slug":"everglades-kayak-trip-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2015\/everglades-kayak-trip-december-2015","title":{"rendered":"Everglades Kayak Trip December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took a short trip, first ever in December. No winter yet, temp in the 80s and therefore <strong>lots of bugs<\/strong>. &lt;frown&gt; Half this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/everglades\/2015dec\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo Gallery<\/a>\u00a0is from a day trip on the upper <strong>Turner River<\/strong>, which was new territory for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-mangrove-tunnel-2015.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5460 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-mangrove-tunnel-2015.jpg\" alt=\"everglades-mangrove-tunnel-2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-mangrove-tunnel-2015.jpg 2272w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-mangrove-tunnel-2015-150x29.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-mangrove-tunnel-2015-400x76.jpg 400w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-mangrove-tunnel-2015-1024x195.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5472 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-gator-2015.jpg\" alt=\"everglades-gator-2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-gator-2015.jpg 600w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-gator-2015-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-gator-2015-374x250.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our route was <strong>Halfway Creek<\/strong> to <strong>Crooked Creek Chickee<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0<strong>Watson Place<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0<strong>Jewel Key<\/strong> and out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5466\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-group-2015.jpg\" alt=\"everglades-group-2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-group-2015.jpg 600w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-group-2015-150x29.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-group-2015-400x78.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We saw lots of wildlife including about five <strong>Manatees<\/strong>, some quite close. Also saw five\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Roseate_Spoonbill\/id\" target=\"_blank\">Roseate Spoonbills<\/a>, which is a record for me. We had a consistent breeze on our last night (Christmas Eve),\u00a0enjoyed the full moon rise and a fire on the beach. I slept in a special hammock hanging in\u00a0a mangrove tree!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-hammock-2015.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5463\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-hammock-2015.jpg\" alt=\"everglades-hammock-2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-hammock-2015.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-hammock-2015-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-hammock-2015-374x250.jpg 374w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/everglades-hammock-2015-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next day we were greeted by about a hundred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/American_White_Pelican\/id\" target=\"_blank\">White Pelicans<\/a> feeding at low tide. Nice!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I0yUlLjfpV8?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took a short trip, first ever in December. No winter yet, temp in the 80s and therefore lots of bugs. &lt;frown&gt; Half this\u00a0Photo Gallery\u00a0is from a day trip on the upper Turner River, which was new territory for me&#8230; Our route was Halfway Creek to Crooked Creek Chickee\u00a0to\u00a0Watson Place\u00a0to\u00a0Jewel Key and out. We saw lots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2015\/everglades-kayak-trip-december-2015\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Everglades Kayak Trip December 2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,14,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-everglades","category-photography","category-travel","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5457"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5825,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457\/revisions\/5825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}