{"id":5716,"date":"2016-03-07T21:37:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T02:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2016-03-08T08:20:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T13:20:27","slug":"santa-fe-river-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2016\/santa-fe-river-afternoon","title":{"rendered":"Santa Fe River Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was itching to go kayaking somewhere new, so I headed over to the Santa Fe River<\/strong>. There was a little park and boat launch near the highway 47 bridge. While getting ready to go I spotted what looked like green leaves stuck on the sides of two trees. They turned out to be Luna Moths<\/a><\/strong>, which I think were newly emerged. Beautiful! [Gallery<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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I proceeded to peddle upstream against the current, which was pretty brisk at times. The shoreline got progressively more rocky with exposed limestone until I reached an actual rapids<\/strong>. It was all I could do to move against it. Once I passed it I stopped for a rest and then started my lazy float back downstream.<\/p>\n

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I stopped frequently to take pictures and explore a bit. The south side is conservation land and the north side is undeveloped. There were LOTS of cypress knees<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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There is no one big obvious spring as far as I could tell, but several under and around the river. The possible exception was a small stream that formed a long skinny island<\/strong> not far from the bridge. The water there was much clearer (and warmer). I could not paddle beyond fallen trees on both ends so I walked a trail along side for a hundred yards or so. It was a beautiful place!<\/p>\n

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In addition to the yellow asters shown above there were Spider Lilies<\/strong> starting to bloom and lots of Rain Lilies<\/strong> on the forest floor. This last was new to\u00a0me. I’m used to seeing them along the roadside after it rains.<\/p>\n

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Here’s part of the low-res map<\/a> I used (upstream is down). The distance from the put-in to the “kink” near the bottom is about two miles. That’s where the rapids are\u00a0(I think).<\/p>\n

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I was itching to go kayaking somewhere new, so I headed over to the Santa Fe River. There was a little park and boat launch near the highway 47 bridge. While getting ready to go I spotted what looked like green leaves stuck on the sides of two trees. They turned out to be Luna … Continue reading “Santa Fe River Afternoon”<\/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":[27,16,14,10],"tags":[189,235,236],"class_list":["post-5716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-flowers","category-photography","category-travel","tag-hdr","tag-kayak","tag-luna-moth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716","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=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5736,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions\/5736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}