Today we paddled on the Hillsborough
River with old friends. Our friends Joe and Jean operate a canoe livery on the river, so we met at their place:
Canoe Escape. We have paddled with Joe and Jean a number of times, but hadn't paddled with them in more than a year. We also met our friend Bob from NC and friends Bob and Cheryl from FL. We put in at Sargeant Park on Morris Bridge Road under cool
and cloudy skies with a fair wind. The Hillsborough River is a great place to see alligators, but the conditions today were not conducive to sunning gators. The Hillsborough is also a great place to see birds. Joe and Jean know the river well and identified all the birds we saw and pointed out all the good gator holes. We saw a few gators, but the birds were the real treat. We saw ibis, cormorants, anhingas, great blue herons, little blue herons, tri-color herons, green herons, black crowned night herons, roseate spoonbills, limpkins, snowy egrets, great egrets, red-shouldered hawks, an osprey, black vultures, a wood stork and belted kingfishers. Dorcas got an excellent picture of a piliated
woodpecker. It was a very leisurely and enjoyable 8 mile, 5 hour float. We took out at Trout Park near I-75. While it threatened to rain much of the day, the rains held off until we were off the river. Another wonderful day on the river with good friends.
River with old friends. Our friends Joe and Jean operate a canoe livery on the river, so we met at their place: Canoe Escape. We have paddled with Joe and Jean a number of times, but hadn't paddled with them in more than a year. We also met our friend Bob from NC and friends Bob and Cheryl from FL. We put in at Sargeant Park on Morris Bridge Road under cool 
and cloudy skies with a fair wind. The Hillsborough River is a great place to see alligators, but the conditions today were not conducive to sunning gators. The Hillsborough is also a great place to see birds. Joe and Jean know the river well and identified all the birds we saw and pointed out all the good gator holes. We saw a few gators, but the birds were the real treat. We saw ibis, cormorants, anhingas, great blue herons, little blue herons, tri-color herons, green herons, black crowned night herons, roseate spoonbills, limpkins, snowy egrets, great egrets, red-shouldered hawks, an osprey, black vultures, a wood stork and belted kingfishers. Dorcas got an excellent picture of a piliated 
woodpecker. It was a very leisurely and enjoyable 8 mile, 5 hour float. We took out at Trout Park near I-75. While it threatened to rain much of the day, the rains held off until we were off the river. Another wonderful day on the river with good friends.
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