Easter Egg hunt for South Florida explorers!

Happy Easter from the greater Everglades!

Now where are all those Easter Eggs?

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(click on pic to find the eggs!)

Where in the world are the Easter Eggs of the Everglades?
They are probably with the birds of Florida Bay. That’s a safe bet!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/thematic/where-in-the-world-are-the-easter-eggs-of-the-everglades/

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Enjoy!

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All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

“Syzygy” – in the shadow of another body.

Life is just a fantasy,

can you live this fantasy life –

in the shadow of another body here on Earth?

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“Syzygy” – in the shadow of another body.
Kayakfari ART photography – ART of Darkness series.
Ten Thousand Islands, Florida.

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Kayakfari Fantasy Art Photography series:

“Syzygy – in the shadow of another body.”

in the Ten Thousand Islands

plus a word from Captain

James T. Sprayskirt:

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“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Kayakfari. The continuing mission to create strange new artworks, to seek out new campsites and paddling opportunities, to boldly go where no photographer hath gone before.”

(** cue theme music **)

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ART of Darkness – Kayaking the final frontier of imaging and photography.

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Camping with the Stars means going outside to experience the night as all the wild creatures of the earth do, or as closely as modern western society humans can. It is to step away from, and to go outside the world of people. It means to look up at the vast infinity above full of billions and billions of stars and feel humbled. It means to connect with the power of the infinite and transcend our daily, busy modern lives. It also means to stay up close and connected to the rhythms of the heavens and of the earth!

Enjoy the Universe!

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! Fantasy

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© 2023 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com

All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

Paddling tales of Fishes, Wreckers, Pirates and upper Keys History.

From the top: There are no alligators,

just a pretty reef and a tall light!

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The last functioning beacon atop Alligator Reef Lighthouse.
Kayaking to Alligator Light Reef (lighthouse) .. of Fishes, Wreckers, Pirates and Keys History!

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Alligator Reef Lighthouse

The shallow reef and light were named after the USS Alligator which shipwrecked there in November of 1822, although it would be another fifty years until the light was built in 1873! It is a beautiful and sturdy Victorian era tower, standing 136 feet tall, and has survived several major hurricanes and was an operational lighthouse/beacon until the summer of 2014!

For this trip I chose the “Mojito”, an RTM Disco sit on top kayak. This is probably the nicest handling inexpensive plastic kayak for paddlers under 175 lbs. Granted, it’s a very wet ride, but this is actually a plus in the tropical heat. With the addition of thigh straps, it responds much like a proper sea kayak and is great to learn and practice kayaking and rescue skills. It’s also easy to roll and an excellent surf/play boat for South Florida waters!

I hope you enjoy the fine views from the top!

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/random-gallery-2/florida-south-florida/florida-bay-keys/alligator-light-reef-lighthouse/

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© 2022 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

The Time-release Dose – “We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”

A pertinent quote by the late Carl Sagan, astronomer and author of the Cosmos  series.

The “Backbone of Night”.

It is said that the !Kung people of the Kalahari desert consider the Milky Way as the backbone that holds up the sky!

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“The sky is calling!”
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part III

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An invitation from the darkness

outside the world of people.

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Our ancestors have lived in the darkness for many thousands of years. It is only in the last 100 years that people have lost sight of the Milky Way and the stars.

Remote camping under the Milky Way is a beautiful experience

not soon forgotten.

Enjoy the dark Everglades nights!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-camping-with-the-stars-part-iii/

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© 2022 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

The Time-release Dose – Deep Field Exploration with my kayak and the JWST.

Thanks to the marvel of the

James Webb Space Telescope ,

we can travel the highways of fantasy

here on Earth.

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“Deep Field Exploration” – camping in silent darkness.
Kayakfari ART photography – ART of Darkness series.
Tidal sandbar, Ten Thousand Islands, Florida.

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Kayakfari Fantasy Art Photography series:

“Deep Space Exploration”

in the Ten Thousand Islands

plus a word from Captain

James T. Sprayskirt:

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“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Kayakfari. The continuing mission to create strange new artworks, to seek out new campsites and paddling opportunities, to boldly go where no photographer hath gone before.”

(** cue theme music **)

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ART of Darkness – Kayaking the final frontier of imaging and photography.

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Camping with the Stars means going outside to experience the night as all the wild creatures of the earth do, or as closely as modern western society humans can. It is to step away from, and to go outside the world of people. It means to look up at the vast infinity above full of billions and billions of stars and feel humbled. It means to connect with the power of the infinite and transcend our daily, busy modern lives. It also means to stay up close and connected to the rhythms of the heavens and of the earth!

Enjoy the Universe!

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-kayaking-the-final-frontier-of-imaging-and-photography/

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Bless !

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© 2022 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

The Time-release Dose – A Declaration of Independence from Land!

Seeking Higher ground and

Faith in Numbers in the Lower Keys!

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“Higher ground.”
Exploring a Higher Ground in the Lower Keys! Part I.

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Part I : Camping on a sandbar shoal and paddling the Barracuda, Marvin  and the Snipe Keys.

What’s real nice about a sandbar is that since it is surrounded by water and there’s no vegetation, there are absolutely no bugs to deal with. On the flip side, it gets hot under the summer sun, so it helps to bring your own shade in the form of an umbrella or a Sombrero.

If you decide to work on your tan, don’t forget to flip over.

You wouldn’t want to go home half baked!

As luck would have it, this summer trip occurred near the full moon and the tidal ranges were at the extremes for the Keys! The little sandbar shoal was just about underwater during the daytime high tide, and conversely the daytime low left the seabed exposed almost as far as the eye could see. The “top” of this shoal was smaller than a typical living room. The shape of the high ground “living room” was an interesting contoured triangle type shape that is often found repeated in nature.

Summertime kayaking and exploration of the

lower Keys backcountry.

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/higher-ground-in-the-lower-keys-and-faith-in-numbers/exploring-a-higher-ground-in-the-lower-keys/

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© 2022 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

The Time-release Dose – Preparation, Attitude and Lady Luck.

If you stay out long enough,

the odds will eventually catch up with you!

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It was so bloody hot that we couldn’t even count straight anymore.
Everglades hot summer camping and cruising – the Central & Western Florida Bay loop!

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Florida Bay is a special kind of place to get away

from it all but come prepared to keep the party polite.

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Summer in South Florida is the wet and rainy season and tends to be very hot! For paddlers the extreme heat and humidity can be risk factors for those unprepared. On any summer trip, it is essential to have up to twice the amount of drinking water that you think you need! This means ideally you should have up to 2 gallons (8 liters) of water per day. Most of us living in South Florida are habituated to the comfort of air conditioning, and it’s very easy to underestimate how much water you can sweat out!

Also there is the ever present possibility of afternoon squalls and violent thunderstorms. This is really the main wildcard to deal with, although even in the summer the storms or lack there-of tend to come in batches. With keen observation, it is possible to find a window for camping and avoid storms. For one or two night trips, the odds can be good. However if you stay out long enough, the odds will eventually catch up, as we shall see!

You can read more about dealing with the summer heat in:

Surrender to the summer HEAT!

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/everglades-hot-summer-camping-and-cruising-the-central-western-florida-bay-loop/

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© 2022 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

…

I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

The Time-release Dose – Surrender to the Heat, Resistance is Futile!

Time to surrender to the hot permeating

wetness of summer! 🙂

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Nothing but praise and thankfulness, don’t fight it – surrender to it.
Surrender to the summer HEAT!

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Now that summer is here,

the forecast calls for a “steam bath” every day:

The

“90-90-90”

Over 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade,

over 90 percent humidity and the water also about 90.

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Stay cool and hydrated,

enjoy the tropical summer!

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/reality-check/surrender-to-the-summer-heat/

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© 2022 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

The Time-release Dose – Viewing the Total Lunar Eclipse transitions of May 15-16, 2022.

The celestial show last night was a sight to behold,

only periodically obscured by clouds.

Total lunar eclipse – a supermoon eclipse – on May 15-16, 2022

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Viewing the umbra and penumbra transitions of the total lunar eclipse of May 15-16, 2022.
ART of Eclipses and other Cosmic alignments!

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Umbra and Penumbra

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During the totality of the lunar eclipse, only the light reflected from the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere illuminates the moon.

These are the longest wavelengths of visible light and thereby appear red to our eyes!

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More at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-eclipses-and-other-cosmic-alignments/

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© 2022 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

The Time-release Dose – A total Lunar eclipse experience, if not obscured by clouds.

Tune in to the biggest show of all tonight!

Celestial alignments reveal the clockwork our universe at large.

It’s only due to a fortuitous cosmic coincidence that our Sun and the Moon appear about the same size to us on Earth – that’s what makes a total eclipse of the sun possible!

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Why do the Sun and the Moon appear to be the same size in the sky?
ART of Eclipses and other Cosmic alignments!

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Tonight:

Total lunar eclipse – a supermoon eclipse – on May 15-16, 2022

During the totality of the lunar eclipse, only the light reflected from the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere illuminates the moon.

These are the longest wavelengths of visible light and thereby appear red to our eyes!

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To fully appreciate the experience, paddle out to one of the remote backcountry campsites inside Everglades National Park, the Ten Thousand Islands or Florida Bay.

The western coastline along the Gulf of Mexico is the best to get far away from city light pollution.

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-eclipses-and-other-cosmic-alignments/

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! Bless UP

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© 2022 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

…

I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

The Time-release Dose – Cinco miles to the Sombrero Reef Lighthouse with the MOJITO.

This story combines open water paddling,

coral reef snorkeling ~and~ interesting bits of

South Florida nautical history with a twist!

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Willis and the MOJITO ready to paddle out to Sombrero Reef Lighthouse.
Sombrero Reef Lighthouse – visiting the tallest of the reef lights via kayak!

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The Sombrero Reef Lighthouse is the tallest of all the Keys offshore reef lighthouses at 142 feet! Sombrero light was first lit in 1858 and stands in about 6 feet of water. Back then parts of the reef were exposed at low tide, and there was a small island there. Early Spanish explorers named it ‘Cayo Sombrero’, hence the reef’s name! It looks a lot like the Alligator Reef Light, only all rusty red instead of the white and black theme.

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Of course, for a paddling trip to Sombrero Lighthouse,

I had to wear a Sombrero myself.

Out of all the boaters that were there, only one made the obvious

Sombrero-Sombrero

connection! 😮

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/random-gallery-2/florida-south-florida/florida-bay-keys/sombrero-reef-lighthouse-visiting-the-tallest-of-the-reef-lights-via-kayak/

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© 2022 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

…

I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

The Time-release Dose – 45 miles of freestyle paddling and camping in a tropical marine wilderness.

Florida Bay is the kind of place to really

get away from it all.

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One of the two tall Florida Bay chickee platforms – at Johnson Key.
Everglades hot summer camping and cruising – the Central & Western Florida Bay loop!

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Once out past the first line of keys outside Flamingo,

it’s sometimes possible to go for days without

hearing any background noises whatsoever!

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When sounds do happen it’s usually a plane high overhead or a boater somewhere in the distance and fades away quickly. So even though Florida Bay is surrounded by a busy world of people, once inside it’s like a step back into time. It’s easy to imagine what the string of Florida Keys must have been like before all the islands were connected by bridges.

Florida Bay is a step back in time

and just outside the world of people!

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/everglades-hot-summer-camping-and-cruising-the-central-western-florida-bay-loop/

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© 2022 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

…

I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

The Time-release Dose – 1, 2, 3 – tripping into the wild Everglades!

We can also strive to escape

from our modern domesticated era,

if only for a brief and limited time!

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Paddling just as easy as 1 – 2 – 3 ? Perhaps, or perhaps not!
Escape from Babylon into the Ten Thousand Islands.

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This trip added up to about 84 miles with a nice progression

of  11, 20, 25 and 28 mile days.

A memorable escape into the the Ten Thousand Islands of the Everglades!

The Ten Thousands Islands of southwest Florida have a rich human history that dates back thousands of years. For instance, the Calusa Native Americans prospered here, living off the bounty of the coastal marine zone. Rare in human history, they achieved an advanced level of civilization that was not centered on agriculture. They also left us plenty of evidence of just how much, and how well they ate in the form the “midden mounds”. These are basically garbage heaps, of mostly shells, some reaching very large proportions! The remoteness and isolation of the 10K attracted white settlers in the last 150 years to eek out a living, often on top of those old Calusa shell mounds. Some of the so called settlers were actually seeking a place to escape to, to evade the law, perhaps permanently.

In more recent times, access to the 10000 Islands has become codified with the creation of Everglades National Park and other wildlife sanctuaries. Conveniently spaced campsites which can be “reserved” months ahead of time serve to give a familiar structure to an otherwise wild place. A few people still make a living out there, mostly to get others in and out and help them get the most out of the area.

Still, there are a few hidden gems left where the original story continues!

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/random-gallery-2/florida-south-florida/10-000-islands/escape-from-babylon-into-the-ten-thousand-islands/

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© 2022 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:

The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

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Blessings friends!

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The Time-release Dose – Delicious silence under the stars.

An invitation from the silent darkness.

Visiting remote destinations that have some of the darkest skies

and best star viewing in the Everglades!

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Deep space exploration under the stars in the Ten Thousand Islands.
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part II

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Ten Thousand Islands photography series:

“It’s full of Stars!”

ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part II

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Full story at:

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Blessings friends!

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The Time-release Dose – Breathe deep, spring is in the air!

Paddling adventures in The High Country – Part III

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Lighting up the night in springtime northern New Mexico.
Kayaking, photography and riparian entertainment in springtime New Mexico!

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Springtime riparian entertainment,

photography and kayaking in New Mexico.

Northern New Mexico is a sunny kind of place – winter, spring and all year round. Because of the high altitude and all the radiant solar heat during the day it’s quite warm and comfortable. The air is light at this altitude, in the winter it feels sterile, like breathing from a SCUBA tank.

It’s also as silent as can be!

In the spring the dry brown hues of winter give way to vibrant greens and fields of beautiful wildflowers! All the new spring growth releases scents that waft through the air along with the sounds of life scurrying around.

There are excellent spring time white water paddling opportunities, but I wanted a slower touring pace to focus on photography and continue to “get to know these places”.

Feat. the Rio Grande at Cochiti Lake,

and Abiquiu Lake on the Rio Chama!

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Full story at:

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Blessings friends!

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The Time-release Dose – The serious Moonlight.

The first few minutes of a moon rise

are the most poetic!

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Under the serious Moonlight in the Ten Thousand Islands.
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part I

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The moon’s steady ascent above the horizon is clear evidence of an endless cosmic cycle. From day to night, month to month, epoch to epoch – as our little planet world moves through space and time.

Camping with the Stars means going outside to experience the night as all the wild creatures of the earth do, or as closely as modern western society humans can. It is to step away from, and to go outside the world of people. It means to look up at the vast infinity above full of billions and billions of stars and feel humbled. It means to connect with the power of the infinite and transcend our daily, busy modern lives. It also means to stay up close and connected to the rhythms of the heavens and of the earth!

Remote camping under the full moon is a beautiful

experience not easily forgotten!

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The Time-release Dose – Free ranging to Carysfort Reef Lighthouse off Key Largo.

Up close with the oldest standing screw pile lighthouse in the nation!

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Silently gliding towards Carysfort Reef Lighthouse in my vintage Shearwater surfski.
Carysfort Reef Lighthouse – paddling into upper Keys nautical history!

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You can’t actually see Carysfort Light from the seat of the kayak when you first set out.

Carysfort Reef Lighthouse is the oldest of all the Keys offshore lighthouses constructed in the 19th century that is still standing. It became operational in 1852 and replaced the lightship “Florida” which was tending that duty with limited success. It was also the first to use the iron screw pile construction method that has proven to stand the test of time.

Carysfort Reef and lighthouse are named after the H.M.S. Carrysford (note change in spelling) which ran aground on the reef on October 23, 1770. However this reef also carries the distinction of being the site of the oldest recorded shipwreck in North America, that of the H.M.S. Winchester on September 24, 1695. The wreck was not discovered until 1938, and further salvage into the 1950s yielded many artifacts including several of her cannons and many valuable artifacts.

Carysfort Reef Light is the longest serving of all the Keys lighthouses, having been in continuous operation from 1852 to 2014.

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Blessings friends!

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The Time-release Dose – There are no alligators, just a pretty reef and a tall light!

Paddling tales of Fishes, Wreckers,

Pirates and Keys History!

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Stay hydrated at Alligator Reef Light, and please don’t panic!
Kayaking to Alligator Light Reef (lighthouse) .. of Fishes, Wreckers, Pirates and Keys History!

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The reef and light were named after the USS Alligator which shipwrecked there in November of 1822, although it would be another fifty years until the light was built in 1873! It is a beautiful and sturdy Victorian era tower, standing 136 feet tall, and has survived several major hurricanes and was an operational lighthouse/beacon until the summer of 2014!

For this trip I chose the “Mojito”, an RTM Disco sit on top kayak. This is probably the nicest handling inexpensive plastic kayak for paddlers under 175 lbs. Granted, it’s a very wet ride, but this is actually a plus in the tropical heat. With the addition of thigh straps, it responds much like a proper sea kayak and is great to learn and practice kayaking and rescue skills. It’s also easy to roll and an excellent surf/play boat for South Florida waters!

I hope you’ve enjoy the fine views from the top!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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Blessings friends!

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The Time-release Dose – The Sombrero at the Sombrero Reef Lighthouse!

Paddling around the lighthouse I was impressed with the level of engineering.

The quality of construction and overall robustness is still evident even today, over 160 years later!

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Richard cooling off in the blue waters surrounding Sombrero Reef Lighthouse.
Sombrero Reef Lighthouse – visiting the tallest of the reef lights via kayak!

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I did have some company and swimming was optional!

At first glance Sombrero Reef Lighthouse looks a lot like the Alligator Reef Light, only all rusty red instead of the white and black theme. It is however the tallest of all the Keys offshore reef lighthouses at 142 feet! Sombrero light was first lit in 1858 and stands in about 6 feet of water. Back then parts of the reef were exposed at low tide, and there was a small island there. Early Spanish explorers named it ‘Cayo Sombrero’, hence the reef’s name!

I made sure to wear one of my Sombreros on this trip, though strangely out of all the boaters there was only one that actually seemed to make the obvious Sombrero-Sombrero connection! 😮

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The Time-release Dose – Goodbye Babylon, bye bye. Hello Everglades tripping!

Escape from Babylon into the

Ten Thousand Islands!

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This simple laminated Google Earth printout sufficed for maybe 90% of my navigational needs.
(For the remaining 10% I thanked Ted’s GPS unit.)
Escape from Babylon into the Ten Thousand Islands.

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The Ten Thousands Islands of southwest Florida have a rich human history that dates back thousands of years. The Calusa Native Americans prospered here, living off the bounty of the coastal marine zone. Rare in human history, they achieved an advanced level of civilization that was not based on agriculture! They left plenty of evidence of just how much (and how well) they ate in the form the “midden mounds”. These are basically garbage heaps, of mostly shells, some quite large! The remoteness and isolation of the 10K attracted white settlers in the last 150 years to eek out a living, often on top of the old Calusa shell mounds. Some of the so called settlers were actually seeking a place to escape to, perhaps permanently.

In the modern era, we can also strive to escape,

if only for a limited time!

With my paddling partner Kayak Ted, we hatched yet another route plan to take us further south along the Ten Thousand Islands coastline and then visit a few interior campsites on the Wilderness Waterway. One of best things about tripping with Ted is that he’s down with (some of) my oddball suggestions, and sometimes he pulls out one of his own.

Such as, let’s start our 3 night trip at 5pm, day of!

In the end we paddled about 84 miles and had a nice progression of 11, 20, 25 and 28 mile days. The conditions were mostly favorable, the bugs weren’t that bad on this adventure, and it was a great trip in the Ten Thousand Islands.

A fun escape from Babylon into the Everglades outback!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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Blessings friends!

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The Time-release Dose – Tune in anytime, however expect to see some reruns!

The show is always free and there

are never any commercials.

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The winter sky over the Everglades is the Portal to the biggest show of all.
Sweet dreams of Everglades winter skies and celestial alignments!

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Celestial alignments reveal the clockwork our universe at large.

Tune in to the biggest show of all!

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To fully appreciate the Everglades winter sky experience, paddle out to one of the remote backcountry campsites inside the Park, the Ten Thousand Islands or Florida Bay.

The western coastline along the Gulf of Mexico is the best to get far away from city light pollution.

Get out there and enjoy the dark Everglades nights.

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Blessings friends!

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The Time-release Dose – The key to a Higher Ground was my Faith in Numbers!

Summertime kayaking and exploration of the

lower Keys backcountry.

Part III

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Between sunset and the moonrise, the low tide had bottomed out for the night on the sandbar.
Temporary tidal space and Faith in Numbers!

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Mathematics is the language of the universe,

so it makes sense to trust the numbers!

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Returning back to the little sandbar “base” described in Part One: Exploring a Higher Ground!, it was nice to kick back and enjoy the late afternoon. After hours of paddling and snorkeling, we came back as a matter of choice. Out on the sandbar with no vegetation and a steady breeze we were assured of bug-free living. Looking at my tide table notes, I realized that the night time high tide was predicted to be only about half of the daytime high. We could see where the daytime high had topped out, so I was 99% confident we’d stay dry at the very “top” of the sandbar throughout the night.

This is what I mean by Faith in Numbers!

A lot of us live out most of our busy modern lives indoors, so spending a 24 hour cycle in the middle of nowhere really helps to put everything into perspective. The psychological comfort crutches we reaffirm on a daily basis seem somewhat silly and naive as illusions of any kind of control fade away.

We all live fragilely exposed and fully vulnerable on our little planet spinning in the vast interstellar wilderness of the cosmos. For some this may seem disturbing, but I take comfort in the odds, the numbers as it were.

In the short term,

those odds are with us at least.

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Blessings friends!

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The Time-release Dose – A Greenland stick in the tropics.

Summertime kayaking and exploration of the

lower Keys backcountry.

Part II

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My favorite Greenland stick to power the Banana Boat (Seda Glider).
A Lower Keys Roundabout: Marvin Key and Snipe Point!

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Sandbar shoal camping and exploring the Barracuda, Marvin and  Snipe Keys.

My cruising kayak, the “Banana Boat” is a long boat at almost 20 feet. I’ve been using the same Greenland stick to propel her for over 20 years. At 6’2″, my body happens to be the perfect interface between my 20 foot boat and the 97 inch Greenland stick. Is it a paddle or a blade? It is both at the same time! One of the best things about this particular stick is the nice “spring” or “kick” I can get out of it when paddling. It’s very comfortable to hold without gloves and is also very lightweight and self-buoyant.

The simple beauty and smooth paddling style of the stick is really hard to beat. While it may look like a shaved down piece of 2×4, the simplicity is deceptive as the shape and motion embodies some advanced mathematical and fluid dynamics concepts. The Inuit natives who developed and refined it didn’t have to understand any of that. Out of necessity they used the sparse materials available to them to create this tool.

The Greenland stick is among those few inventions that can’t hardly

be improved upon, even after thousands of years.

The sandbar we beached on just south of the Barracuda Keys was an unexpected bonus because of it’s location near the edge of the Gulf. It made a great starting point for exploration of the nearby keys that are fairly closely clustered. For instance Marvin Key is only a mile, and Snipe Point just another couple of miles more! It made sense to check them both out in a big loop of about seven or eight miles.

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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Blessings friends!

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The Time-release Dose – Voices of shellers shrouded in fog.

A blanket of fog covered the sandbar as I was

waking up hearing strange voices in the mist.

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The fog would not deter the shellers from their mission.
Fogged out and hearing voices in the Ten Thousand Islands!

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At times the fog was so thick that we could only hear the voices in the mist! The place was suddenly full of people, wading and shelling the shoreline and tidal flats. The shellers were busy picking and seemed oblivious to our presence on the sandbar. So I set out to investigate and find their origin.

Fogged out and hearing voices in the Ten Thousand Islands!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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Blessings friends!

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The Time-release Dose – Seeking Higher ground and Faith in Numbers in the Lower Keys.

Summertime kayaking and exploration of the

lower Keys backcountry.

Part I

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“Higher ground.”
Exploring a Higher Ground in the Lower Keys! Part I.

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Camping on a sandbar shoal and paddling the Barracuda, Marvin  and the Snipe Keys.

One great aspect of a sandbar is that since it is surrounded by water and there’s no vegetation, there are absolutely no bugs to deal with. On the flip side, it’s hot under the summer sun, so it helps to bring your own shade in the form of an umbrella or a Sombrero. If you decide to work on your tan, don’t forget to flip over.

You wouldn’t want to go home half baked!

As luck would have it, this summer trip occurred near the full moon and the tidal ranges were at the extremes for the Keys! The little sandbar shoal was just about underwater during the daytime high tide, and conversely the daytime low left the seabed exposed almost as far as the eye could see. The “top” of this shoal was smaller than a typical living room. The shape of the high ground “living room” was an interesting contoured triangle type shape that is often found repeated in nature.

The graceful curve reminded me somewhat of the pediment shapes commonly seen in Neoclassical architecture!

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Blessings friends!

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The Time-release Dose – Winter paddling adventures in The High Country – Part II

Kayak ice breaking on the Rio Grande!

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So you think I’d be the only crazy nut boating in the dead of winter in New Mexico?
Paddling in a Winter Wonderland – Kayak ice breaking on the Rio Grande!

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Previously on Winter paddling adventures in The High Country – Part I :

“Winter Wonderland paddling – kayak photography at Cochiti Lake on the Rio Grande in New Mexico”.

I was determined to make kayaking on the Rio Grande at Cochiti Lake a year round sport with my 14 foot sit on top kayak, the well known classic Necky Dolphin. When you take a look at the bow of the Necky Dolphin kayak, you will notice the blunt bow which was designed that way for surfing.

This feature is also what makes it a good ice breaker kayak!

It’s because it actually rides up on top of the ice and then crushes it underneath it’s own weight. This is exactly the same way that the giant ice breaker ships work too! The machete duct taped to the bow is there just to part the way so the hull can break the ice.

In my case the limit to successful kayak ice breaking

was about 1.5″ inches of ice thickness!

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/winter-wonderland-paddling-kayak-photography-at-cochiti-lake-on-the-rio-grande-in-new-mexico/paddling-in-a-winter-wonderland-kayak-ice-breaking-on-the-rio-grande/

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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Blessings friends!

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The Time-release Dose – Fogged out in the Ten Thousand Islands.

Ten Thousand Islands kayaking series:

Second Chance sandbar off Cape Romano.

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Second Chance sandbar shrouded in fog, January 2022.
Fogged out and hearing voices in the Ten Thousand Islands!

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Taking time to explore these sand shoals we were treated to a rare experience of complete fog out. At times it was so thick that we could only hear the voices in the mist!

The so called “Second Chance” sandbar is an ever changing and dynamic collection of shifting sands in Gullivan Bay. There can be one, two or more small splintered off sandbars just barely above the high tide line. The area lies about a mile southeast off the tip of Cape Romano. It is a part of the Rookery Bay Research Reserve and Second Chance is also a designated Critical Wildlife Area (CWA). As such, access is restricted with the entire area closed off from March 1st to August 31, or whenever nesting birds leave. This helps to insure that the many species of shorebirds have a place to nest free of mainland predators and people!

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Full story:

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Blessings friends!

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The Daily Dose – Winter paddling adventures in The High Country – Part I

In the silence of winter, the lake speaks

of the painted winter landscapes!

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I wasn’t planning on going snorkeling, but as a Floridian chose to represent!
Winter Wonderland paddling – kayak photography at Cochiti Lake on the Rio Grande in New Mexico.

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Kayaking in the desert? That was my question when I lived in Santa Fe a few years ago. Coming from south Florida, the question might seems an oxymoron. Truth is the high desert environment of New Mexico has many rivers running through it. There are excellent seasonal white water paddling opportunities, yet I wanted a slower pace to focus on photography and to “get to know the place”. At first I really missed the ocean, then after a while the desert really grew on me, and I began to think of it as an ocean of dirt. I decided to bring with me a 14 foot sit on top kayak, the well known classic Necky Dolphin.

Also, I was determined to make this a year round sport!

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New Mexico is the “other” Sunshine State!

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/winter-wonderland-paddling-kayak-photography-at-cochiti-lake-on-the-rio-grande-in-new-mexico/

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The Daily Dose – Exploring a hidden bit of the colorful old time Everglades history!

Moonshine in the Ten Thousand Islands

of the Everglades.

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Represent! Flying the colors at the launch in Everglades City.
Moonshine in the 10 000 Islands of the Everglades.

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A simple “overnight” trip,

but with about 42 miles to cover.

On offer in this story is a photo journey of a quest to find a “lost” bit of old Everglades history. It’s the story of a Prohibition era liquor still hidden deep in the mangrove jungles of the Ten Thousand Islands.

It takes us back to the beginnings of the fascinating life story of Chokoloskee resident Loren “Totch” Brown who lived there. If you are not familiar, his book is a must read:

Totch: A Life in the Everglades by Loren G. Brown

With the Liquor Still Bay mission accomplished, we headed out into the Gulf on a slack tide. The paddling was easy and serene, and not at all what the Gulf waters would have waiting in store for us.

It forced us to re-examine our situation!

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/moonshine-in-the-10-000-islands/

Revised and updated for your reading pleasure!

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The Daily Dose – Fifty miles, three nights and ten thousand skeeters in the Everglades.

Adventure paddling and hellish camping

in the Ten Thousand Islands!

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Emerging from the refuge of the micro-tent / cage after 12+ hours.
Camping Hell in the Ten Thousand Islands.

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 Revised and updated for your reading pleasure!

Starting with a late departure, this trip seemed all about pushing our luck. It was a 3 day and 3 night kinda trip, if that makes any sense? The idea was to revisit the liquor still in the Everglades we had found earlier, and also see a bunch of places en route. We explored the Gopher Key Calusa mound and then rode Charley Creek out into the Gulf of Mexico, followed by camping at Pavilion Key.

Thanks to skill, perseverance and some luck we were able to visit

all the spots as planned, however the camping was just plain ugly!!

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Full story at:

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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The Daily Dose – Priceless views outside the world of people!

Kayakfari ART photography brings you

the magic of Florida Bay.

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“A view to a Chill” – good morning from Little Rabbit Key in Florida Bay!
ART of the Bay – Florida Bay Landscapes.

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There is  an irresistible allure  to the  keys hovering on the horizon

as if mirages, but they are real places!

Florida Bay is a large body of water bordered by Everglades National Park to the north, and Florida’s Keys along with the Gulf Stream ocean current to the south. Covering over 800 square miles, it forms a roughly triangular shape about 40 miles wide from east to west. From north to south, it tapes out from six miles in the east to 25 miles on it’s western edge with the Gulf of Mexico. Almost all of the ‘Bay, as it is called locally, is a part of Everglades National Park, and has been protected since the Park’s inception in 1947. Within it’s boundaries, there are about 100 small islands or keys. Very few of these have any actual dry land; most are just clumps of mangroves and mud barely standing above sea level. But they are all full of life.

EVERGLADES LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY and

DIGITAL ART from FLORIDA BAY

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Full story at:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-the-bay-florida-bay-landscapes/

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More on paddling and camping on Florida Bay:

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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The Daily Dose – Once upon a time at Cape Romano.

The Australopithecine Island Village

at Cape Romano!

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I began to dress like them to fit in, and soon they began to accept me as one of their own.
ART of Cape Romano – The curious inhabitants of Australopithecine Island.

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On a remote island in the Ten Thousand Islands area of the Everglades an isolated tribe of curious Australopithecines took up residence in the Cape Romano dome ruins. For years the clan lived in harmony subsisting on a diet of mostly fish, marine life and herbs. Sometimes they would find ready made food containers with half eaten sandwiches and salads, presumably left behind by the “hairless ones” (whom we call tourists).

These were “feast” days to them, and the living was good!

The hominins soon learned that the “hairless ones” would come twice a day, morning and afternoon, almost like the movement of tides. They would watch from their hiding places and later find other objects the “hairless” sometimes left behind. They made good use of all the things left to them like tents, tarps and plastic cups and wood pieces!

The first Australopithecine I ever met, I named him “George” due to his curious nature! There was also at least one female of breeding age and I called her “Lucy”, along with a young juvenile male “Diego”. Where in the world did he come from?

Long live George and the Australopithecine dream!

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Full story at:

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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The Daily Dose – It takes a kayaker to photograph a Stiltsville village!

Kayak Miami:

Stiltsville Village upon Biscayne Bay.

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Turn up the Night at Stiltsville!
ART of the Bay – Visions of Stiltsville and Biscayne Bay landscapes.

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“Stiltsville” is a village of sorts situated about a mile south of Cape Florida in Biscayne Bay, Florida. It’s an iconic Miami landmark,  but somewhat hard to get to since it’s surrounded by water. These homes were built in the shallows on stilts starting in the 1930’s and the number of structures peaked at 27 during the freewheeling Stiltsville heyday. After many decades and a few hurricanes, there are currently only six remaining wooden structures and all are now part of Biscayne National Park.

Enjoy this special day / night Stiltsville experience!

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Kayakfari ART photography – Miami’s Stiltsville village upon Biscayne Bay:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-the-bay-visions-of-stiltsville-and-biscayne-bay-landscapes/

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The Daily Dose – The weight of this moment, saying goodbye to 2021!

It’s the end of 2021 and I feel fine.

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Moonset over Florida Bay and the crushing weight of this moment!
ART of Darkness – Kayaking the final frontier of imaging and photography.

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 A word from

Captain James T. Sprayskirt:

“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Kayakfari. The continuing mission to create strange new artworks, to seek out new campsites and paddling opportunities, to boldly go where no photographer has gone before.”

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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The Daily Dose – The sky is calling!

An invitation from the darkness

outside the world of people.

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“The sky is calling collect”, will you accept the charges?
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part III

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Our ancestors have lived in the darkness for many thousands of years. It is only in the last 100 years that people have lost sight of the Milky Way and the stars..

“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Remote camping under the Milky Way is a beautiful experience

not soon forgotten.

Accept the call and enjoy the dark Everglades nights!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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The Daily Dose – Paddling the magic days of Christmas.

Photographic Revelations in the high desert.

Kayaking in the high desert of New Mexico,

I came upon this ice formation during Christmas which fell apart five minutes later!

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“Nativity in Ice” – Mother Mary and the baby Jesus with goat at feet.
ART of the Rio Grande – Anthropomorphic magic forms and Riparian voices.

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The Rio Grande has spoken to me many times through the seasons.

Studies in perception, anthropomorphism, and meaning

in the dead of the New Mexican winter.

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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The Daily Dose – See the Rabbit in the Moon, don’t stop Florida!

Once you see the Rabbit in the Moon,

it can not be unseen.

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Don’t stop, don’t stop – The Rabbit in the Moon in Florida.
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part I

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Staring at the moon can be a hypnotic experience, yet many creatures are nocturnal. They live and die under the moonlight. I once saw a whole flock of Pelicans gliding in the breezes above me in the moonlight. They flew silently in formations, with only the swoosh of their wings giving them away! The moon’s gravitational pull works ocean tides in an endless cycle. In the Everglades this is particularly apparent, especially in places like the flats of First National Bank in the western part of Florida Bay!

I find great comfort resting under the moonlight

while watching it ride across the night sky.

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“A Trip to the Moon!“

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Rabbit in the Moon

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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The Daily Dose – The Hurricane and the Damage Done.

An overnight visit to Cape Romano

that was three months after

Hurricane Irma had passed directly overhead.

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Last rays of sunshine over the Cape Romano dome home ruins!
Paddling the Goodland to Cape Romano loop and camping in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.

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Hurricane Irma made landfall directly at Cape Romano at about 3pm EST on Sunday, September 10, 2017 as a Category 3 storm. The 120 mph winds and strong storm surge collapsed two of the six dome home structures and further eroded the coastline. What was once a very wide and large sandy beach at the tip of the cape has been reduced to a tiny strip of sand.

Since the hurricane, there is even less beach left now, and the best camping is a little further north along the western shoreline.

The Goodland to Cape Romano paddling loop amounts to at least 14 miles, with much of it in open water on Gullivan Bay in the Ten Thousand Islands. However this can be a relatively easy paddle for intermediate level paddlers with several semi-sheltered route options depending on weather conditions. You can also hug the shoreline the whole way if you don’t like open water paddling, but it will make for a longer paddle. Evidence of the powerful hurricane can still be seen all along the coastline and the Morgan River.

A reminder of the impermanence of shorelines

and the shifting sands of time!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

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The Daily Dose – An alligator in New Mexico?

Revealing the magic of the high desert!

The alligator, a swan, a goose, Jabba the Hut, even Snoopy and the Road Runner –

not to mention the Nativity in Ice a day before Christmas!

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“Wood-b-Predator” – an anthropomorphic driftwood piece that found me!
ART of the Rio Grande – Anthropomorphic magic forms and Riparian voices.

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This Floridian has spent some quality time on the Rio Grande in the high desert of New Mexico. From time to time I found magic forms, or should it be said that they found me?

Yes, the river has spoken to me many times over the seasons!

Kayaking and photography in the high desert

on a quest to seek out magic forms.

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-the-rio-grande-anthropomorphic-magic-forms-and-riparian-voices/

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Blessings friends!

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The Daily Dose – The eyes of the forest were staring back at me.

The .. walls .. those .. eyes .. everywhere!

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Why are you looking at me like this?
Cabin Fever – when the walls have eyes!

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A few years ago I spent a summer guiding in the Upper Penninsula (UP) of northern Michigan. My rustic accommodations centered around an old bunk style camping cabin that had been converted to a stand alone mini apartment.

Perfect for the single paddler and I also enjoyed waterfront living for the first time in my life. 🙂

The walls of my cabin were lined with planks of cedar,

and the eyes literally popped out of the wood work.

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The Daily Dose – Sugar sand beachcombing, fishing and photography at Camp LuLu.

Fine beach camping and photography at

Camp LuLu in the Ten Thousand Islands.

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Buenos días from Camp LuLu beach on the Gulf coast of the Everglades.
Camping at Camp LuLu in the Ten Thousand Islands.

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Camp LuLu is a great place to camp and is popular with paddlers and powerboaters alike. Since it is outside Everglades National Park, no permit is needed, but you still need to respect the private property on the island, such as the green cabin! Excellent place to relax, has weathered deadwood to setup your hammock on. Also great for shelling and just walking along the beautiful sandy beaches.

Like many Gulf campsites beware the Raccoons as they sometimes work in teams! Also if you arrive at low tide, you’ll have several hundred feet of mudflats to explore or fish from. You may consider to bring some pool noodles to use as logs to roll your kayak onto the beach with, lest you get stuck in those mudflats!

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The Daily Dose – Tune in to the biggest show of all!

Our universe up in the night sky above.

The show is free and there are no commercials!

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Winter skies in the Everglades are our local Portal to the biggest show of all.
Sweet dreams of Everglades winter skies and celestial alignments!

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Tune in anytime, however expect to see some reruns.

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To fully appreciate the Everglades winter sky experience, it is worthwhile to paddle out to one of the remote backcountry campsites inside the Park, the Ten Thousand Islands or Florida Bay.

The western coastline along the Gulf of Mexico is the best to get far away from city light pollution.

Get out there and enjoy the dark nights in Everglades!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/thematic/sweet-dreams-of-everglades-winter-skies-and-celestial-alignments/

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Blessings friends!

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The Daily Dose – Leave your paddles behind, and take a journey into the color matrix of the very small kind!

What’s the RGB on my CRT ?

The three primary colors:

Red, Green and Blue.

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Individual RGB sub-pixel phosphors on a traditional CRT TV!
ART of Primary Colors – the RGB on my CRT!

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Additive mixing of these three can simulate any color and hue that our eyes can detect,

and is the basis for all display devices such as the one you’re looking at right now.

Similarly, a Bayer filter array is commonly used in capture devices like smart phones

and most digital cameras.

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When the three primary colors average out to an

even intensity over a given unit of time,

it gives the illusion of white light from a normal viewing distance!

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For this reason I named my

Kirton K1 trainer fitness kayak – “RGB“

because it is painted all white and

I am a photographer! 🙂

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“Leave your paddles behind,

and take a journey into the color matrix

of the very small kind”

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The Daily Dose – The high rise outback condominium on Florida Bay.

I always tell people you don’t know chill,

until you Florida Bay chill – on a chickee!

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Shark Point Chickee is the tallest in Everglades National Park and feels like an outback condominium!
The Shark Point Chickee condominium on Florida Bay.

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Shark Point Chickee

When there is no moon out, it gets very dark indeed! A calm night on the Shark Point Chickee may possibly be the ultimate in camping tranquility. There is an absolute stillness and a total lack of any kind of background noise which is pretty special in today’s world and something not soon forgotten.

You can see the lights from the Florida Keys towns on the horizon to the south as they stretch out in a wide arc!

However the chickee is also a favorite resting place for sea birds and as such it will most likely be covered in bird guano, so bring several tarps to stay clean and scent-free!

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Chickees and Keys in Florida Bay – Kayaking, Camping and Nice Dreams!

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The Daily Dose – Camping the colorful history of the Everglades – The Watson Place.

An interactive panorama from the

Ten Thousand Islands.

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Camping at the Watson’s Place wilderness backcountry site on the Chatham River in Everglades National Park.
Everglades & KOE Aerial VR Panoramas.

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Many places in the Everglades have a colorful history sometimes famous, sometimes infamous. This human history can also lend a layer of mystery and intrigue to an otherwise ordinary campsite. Such is the case with The Watson Place in the Ten Thousand Islands region. It is named for it’s principal resident Edgar J. Watson, who had a two story house there and ran an agricultural and “food processing” operation. There is much lore and speculation regarding the life and times of Mr Watson and so few facts that the actual truth of his exploits may never be fully known. Suffice to say that a fictionalized fleshing out of his persona in Peter Matthiessen‘s famous novel “Killing Mister Watson” may give us the best interpretation of life in the Ten Thousand Islands at the turn of the 20th century.

One thing that is certainly sure is that Mr. Watson was eventually gunned down by a posse of his neighbors!

Today this is a very popular wilderness backcountry campsite on the Chatham River inside Everglades National Park, though it still inspires ghost stories.

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More Everglades panoramas at:

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

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The Daily Dose – Camping with the Stars with a side trip to the Moon.

After watching the moon slowly descend and peacefully set over the Gulf of Mexico, there was an eerie stillness in the pre-dawn glow.

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Moon setting over the lunar-like domes of Cape Romano, October 2008.
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part I

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Eerie full moon solo camping next to the “lunar module” looking domes of Cape Romano when they were still on dry land in October 2008. Originally the separate domes were all connected with walkways and made up one unique island home. I woke up in the pre-dawn hours to watch the moon setting over the Gulf of Mexico.

Remote camping under the full moon is a beautiful experience not easily forgotten!

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The Daily Dose – Return to Earth, a Wildlife Protection Area.

Captain’s blog – supplemental.

Stardate 75257

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“Re-entering the wildlife protection area!”
ART of Darkness – Kayaking the final frontier of imaging and photography.

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Return to Earth and a word from Captain

James T. Sprayskirt:

“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Kayakfari. The continuing mission to create strange new artworks, to seek out new campsites and paddling opportunities, to boldly go where no photographer has gone before.”

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With that said..
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The Daily Dose – Lower Keys sandbar camping and Faith in Numbers!

Mathematics is the language of the universe,

so it makes sense to have faith in numbers!

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Sweet and delicious moonlight over a sandbar camp in the lower Keys.
Temporary tidal space and Faith in Numbers!

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A lot of us live out most of our busy modern lives indoors, so spending a 24 hour cycle in the middle of nowhere really helps to put everything into perspective. The psychological comfort crutches we reaffirm on a daily basis seem somewhat silly and naive as illusions of any kind of control fade away.

We all live fragilely exposed and fully vulnerable on our little planet spinning in the vast interstellar wilderness of the cosmos. For some this may seem disturbing, but I take comfort in the odds, the numbers as it were.

In the short term, those odds are with us at least.

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The Daily Dose – The Cape Romano dome ruins were a fertile photographic playground!

Ten years after, the domes are underwater and may disappear with the next big storm.

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Hanging out on the Cape Romano dome home ruins in October of 2011.
KAYAKING DESTINATIONS + RANDOM IMAGE GALLERY

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The one of a kind dome homes of Cape Romano ruins were still mostly on dry land in October 2011 when this picture was taken. Originally the separate domes were all connected with walkways and made up one unique island home!

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-cape-romano-the-curious-inhabitants-of-australopithecine-island/

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Tropical Storm Issac officially sank the domes in August of 2012, and subsequent storms further eroded the Cape Romano shoreline.

Finally, Hurricane Irma passed directly overhead on September 10, 2017 and collapsed two of the six domes.

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/random-gallery-2/florida-south-florida/10-000-islands/paddling-the-goodland-to-cape-romano-loop-and-camping-in-the-aftermath-of-hurricane-irma/

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

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The Daily Dose – Starshine and light pollution from the South Florida Megalopolis.

Scenes from

Outside the world of people.

Low clouds over Florida Bay delineate the stars and light pollution emanating from the Miami metropolitan area.

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Eerie beauty reflecting the darkness of Everglades National Park.
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part II

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This is the light pollution arising from the lighting needs of millions people living in urban South Florida. The core density of these lights is about 75 to 100 miles away in this photograph. It’s a kind of “permanent dawn” on the horizon that also serves as a navigational aid out in Everglades National Park. Most of the time this is a kind of unavoidable annoyance that destroys the full darkness and wipes out stars.

Sometimes though the glow can be beautiful,

and then becomes it’s own subject! 😮

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More from the darkness here:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-camping-with-the-stars-part-ii/

and here

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-camping-with-the-stars-part-iii/

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Blessings friends!

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The Daily Dose – Saying goodbye to summer, but is it ever really gone?

No, it’s never really gone.

But our first fall cold front is right on time!

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Sunset over a mudflat on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico.
Everglades hot summer camping and cruising – the Central & Western Florida Bay loop!

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It’s not so much the very small drop in temperatures that matters. After months of daily steam baths, it’s the lower humidity that makes the difference. There’s that slight chill in the air when you get out of the water, something not available during the hot summer.

Enjoy!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

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The Daily Dose – Ten Thousand little messengers from Hell at Pavilion Key.

This picturesque sandy isle in the Ten Thousand Islands first drew blood with it’s namesake.

Today it continues to draw blood by way of mosquitos – well sometimes anyway.

Campers beware! 😉

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“Ten Thousand little messengers from Hell at Pavilion Key”
The Milky Way, Polaris and Big Dipper in the no-so-silent darkness of Pavilion Key.
Camping Hell in the Ten Thousand Islands.

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Pavilion Key is a popular island campsite in the Ten Thousand Islands, inside Everglades National Park. While the beach camping is very nice, the island also hosts a surprisingly large mosquito population for an offshore island. At night in the darkness when the stars are out and the wind drops, it’s not necessarily a silent night! Protected inside the inner sanctum of my tent, I hear a roar of skeeters overhead – buzzing about for hours until a breeze picks up again!

The island’s name harks back two hundred years to a cruel twist of fate for a young blonde virgin who was imprisoned for a time inside a pavilion made of logs and palm fronds on the isle. She was the only “survivor” of a raid on a Dutch merchant vessel by the pirate captain Charles Gibbs. The rest of the ship’s occupants and crew were murdered out on the sea, while she was brought back to this island pirate camp presumably as a sex slave for the captain. Eventually the rest of the crew grew tired of the captain keeping a live witness to their crimes and forced their leader to surrender the girl’s fate. She was reportedly poisoned* in her meal and died an agonizing, slow death. Not long after, the US schooner Porpoise discovered the as yet uncharted island and found her recent grave and the pavilion structure.

Thus the name Pavilion Key!

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*( Words on the Wilderness: A History of Place Names in South Florida’s National Parks

by Larry Pérez )

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

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The Daily Dose – Cape Romano dome homes ten years apart.

Unique and innovative, the Cape Romano dome homes still stand (kinda).

But mother nature has really pulled the rug out from under them!

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Making my final approach onto the tip of Cape Romano in 2011.
The dome homes were still mostly above high tide with lots of beach space all around.

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The distinctive dome homes of Cape Romano were still on (relatively) dry land in 2011, and one could access the second story level inside of one them.

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-cape-romano-the-curious-inhabitants-of-australopithecine-island/

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Tropical Storm Issac officially sank the domes in August of 2012, and subsequent storms further eroded the Cape Romano shoreline. Finally, Hurricane Irma passed directly overhead on September 10, 2017 and collapsed two of the six domes.

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/random-gallery-2/florida-south-florida/10-000-islands/paddling-the-goodland-to-cape-romano-loop-and-camping-in-the-aftermath-of-hurricane-irma/

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The four remaining Cape Romano dome homes stand underwater in September 2021.
The wide beach on the tip of Cape Romano is now completely gone!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

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The Milky Way – where are you now? Summer’s almost Gone!

The “Backbone of Night”.

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It is said that the !Kung people of the Kalahari desert consider the Milky Way as the “Backbone of Night” that holds up the sky!

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Summer’s almost gone ..
Milky Way whole sky with Jupiter and Saturn on August 15, 2020 10:30pm.
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part III

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Experience some of the darkest skies in the Everglades!

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Bright Jupiter and Saturn riding side by side across the sky next to the Milky Way.
Single 5 min exposure ISO 800 testing the Astrotracer (sensor shift) feature of my Pentax camera with a 14mm lens. August 15, 2020 @ 11pm.
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part III

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“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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More at:

ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part III

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-camping-with-the-stars-part-iii/

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Summer’s Almost Gone .. BLESS!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

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The Coronavirus might stop our world, but can’t reach the sky nor the moon!

It really was pink !!

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“A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11. They knew that humans had walked on the Moon. They knew the names of Armstrong and Aldrin and Collins.

They wanted to know who was visiting the Moon these days.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (1994).

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“Pink Moon”

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camping everglades kayakfari stars photography night moon
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part I

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-camping-with-the-stars-part-i/

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Enjoy!

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! BLESS

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

Cabin Fever – feat. Four Walls & the Eyes!

The .. walls .. have .. eyes! 😮

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The Coronavirus global pandemic of 2020 has forced many people to isolate themselves to prevent transmission on the novel Covid-19 virus. Necessary, drastic steps as not seen in living memory! Many are stuck indoors in apartments and homes looking at the four walls around them.

Some years ago I experienced something similar living in a tiny cedar cabin while guiding in northern Michigan. The sparsely populated small town of Cedarville was quite a change of pace from urban S Florida!

The walls of my cabin were lined with planks of cedar, and eyes literally popped out of the wood work.

The eyes of the forest were looking back at me!

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(click pic – eyes are waiting!)

I’m in bed with a fever – cabin fever .. that is.
Cabin Fever – when the walls have eyes!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/humor/cabin-fever-when-the-walls-have-eyes/

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Be well friends!!

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Bless UP!

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This is a work of fiction. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. No skeleton, no barbie, nor person, nor kayak was harmed in the making of this work. The author is sorely responsible for the contents of this work!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

 

“All Hail the King Tides of the Fall”, but don’t forget to look UP!

“Who are we?

We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos.

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The Milky Way arching across the whole sky!

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“All Hail the King Tides of the Fall!”
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part III.

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Experience some of the darkest skies in the Everglades.

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-camping-with-the-stars-part-iii/

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Enjoy!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

Sombrero Reef Light – paddling out to the tallest offshore Keys lighthouse!

Open water Sombrero adventure

paddling into middle Keys nautical history

off Marathon.

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“Sombrero on Sombrero!”
Sombrero Reef Lighthouse – visiting the tallest of the reef lights via kayak!

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Fitness, Adventure and Art in one trip!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/random-gallery-2/florida-south-florida/florida-bay-keys/sombrero-reef-lighthouse-visiting-the-tallest-of-the-reef-lights-via-kayak/

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This is a work of fiction. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. No skeleton, nor person, nor kayak was harmed in the making of this work. The author is sorely responsible for the contents of this work!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

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Carysfort Reef Light – paddling out to the first off shore Keys lighthouse!

Open water surfski adventure

paddling into upper Keys nautical history

off Key Largo.

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22 miles of open water surfski adventure paddling off Key Largo.
Carysfort Reef Lighthouse – paddling into upper Keys nautical history!

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Fitness, Adventure and Art in one trip!

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! BLESS – Attitude

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This is a work of fiction. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. No skeleton, nor person, nor kayak was harmed in the making of this work. The author is sorely responsible for the contents of this work!

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

Event Horizon Drop – fantasy art from Kayakfari !

Captain’s Blog – supplemental!

Approaching a massive Black Hole at the center of

the elliptical galaxy M87.

plus a word from

James T. Sprayskirt:

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“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Kayakfari. The continuing mission to create strange new artworks, to seek out new campsites and paddling opportunities, to boldly go where no photographer hath gone before.”

(** cue theme music **)

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“Event Horizon Drop” – paddling into a Black Hole.
Kayakfari ART photography – ART of Darkness series.
The Universe, Everglades National Park, Florida.

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Incredible image of the M87 Black Hole sourced from:

https://eventhorizontelescope.org

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DIGITAL FANTASY ART kayaking the EVERGLADES, FLORIDA BAY, TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS, BIG CYPRESS and further reaches of outer SPACE.

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Blessings friends!

Grand Illusion – fantasy art from Kayakfari that reaches further into Space!

Captain’s Blog – Stardate 96813.62 !

Connecting the Dots of the “Grand Illusion”

in the Everglades

plus a word from Captain

James T. Sprayskirt:

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“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Kayakfari. The continuing mission to create strange new artworks, to seek out new campsites and paddling opportunities, to boldly go where no photographer hath gone before.”

(** cue theme music **)

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(click pic to enter gallery)

“Grand Illusion” – Connect the Dots NOW!
Kayakfari ART photography – ART of Darkness series.
Everglades National Park, Florida.

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DIGITAL FANTASY ART kayaking the EVERGLADES, FLORIDA BAY, TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS, BIG CYPRESS and further reaches of outer SPACE.

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Enjoy!

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Blessings friends!

Five days of hot summer camping and cruising on magical Florida Bay!

Freestyle leisure paddling and camping in a

tropical marine wilderness!

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Summer casual camping loop of Central and Western Florida Bay over 5 days and 4 nights.
Everglades hot summer camping and cruising – the Central & Western Florida Bay loop!

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Summer adventure paddling and camping in South Florida’s Everglades!

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Jenn paddles up to the Johnson Key Chickee v3.0 in the mid day heat!
Everglades hot summer camping and cruising – the Central & Western Florida Bay loop!

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Setting up camp at Little Rabbit Key in the middle of nowhere. 😮
Everglades hot summer camping and cruising – the Central & Western Florida Bay loop!

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Storms all around!!
Everglades hot summer camping and cruising – the Central & Western Florida Bay loop!

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! BLESS – July Morning

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

Summer is here, surrender to the HEAT – Resistance is Futile!

The forecast calls for a “steam bath” every day.

Surrender to the hot permeating wetness of summer!

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Among sea grasses on the flats at high tide, witnessing a large storm over the Everglades mainland to the north.
Surrender to the summer HEAT!

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Imposing cloud formations over the Everglades mainland as seen from First National Bank, Florida Bay.
Quality times like these make the trip worthwhile.
Surrender to the summer HEAT!

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Presenting the Kayakfari summer collection ..
Stay cool all the while looking dashing all summer!
Surrender to the summer HEAT!

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Summer paddling and camping in South Florida and the Everglades!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/reality-check/surrender-to-the-summer-heat/

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! BLESS – Surrender

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

Kayakfari worldwide reach – Thank you & Carpe Mañana!

The Kayakfari world domination

is nearly complete.*

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Excellent! 😉

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Kayakfari gospel worldwide reach map according to WordPress! 😮

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*Except for certain parts of Africa and the Middle East, Svalbard

and North Korea! (sorry)

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Thank you for your viewership and I’m happy that you are finding this site useful, informative & entertaining.

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Friends near & far .. keep on paddling,

Carpe Mañana! 🙂

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Carpe Mañana!
It’s always Christmas – only New Mexicans will understand~ 😉

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

Oh Galileo, Galileo, Figaro Magnifico – Jupiter in June!

A night in the Everglades is the best way to enjoy the biggest show of all.

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The universe in the night sky above!

Have you noticed that bright light high in the SE sky after sunset?

It’s our own planet Jupiter!

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“Jupiter in June”
Jupiter in early June of 2018 with it’s Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

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Galileo, Galileo,

Galileo, Galileo

Galileo Figaro – Magnifico o o ooh ooooh

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The Galilean moons were the first ever objects found to orbit another world by Galileo Galilei in the spring of 1610!

They were named after the lovers of the Greek God Zeus, by German astronomer Simon Marius  at the suggestion of Johannes Kepler. Marius independently sighted these worlds in the same time frame as Galileo.

Improvements in telescope optics and design made by Galileo enabled a magnification factor of 20x which incidentally is the same as my photography setup with a 1000mm reflex lens (20 x 50mm standard view)!

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Parts I + II + III

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“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Celestial alignments show the clockwork of the universe at large!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-camping-with-the-stars-part-i/

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-camping-with-the-stars-part-ii/

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-camping-with-the-stars-part-iii/

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ART of Eclipses and other Cosmic alignments!

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-eclipses-and-other-cosmic-alignments/

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-kayaking-the-final-frontier-of-imaging-and-photography/

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! BLESS – Galileo

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

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Sing along .. Paddling in the Rain, Just Paddlin’ and Campin’ in the Rain!

The sweet rain is a delicious contrast to the

salty Atlantic and it’s fun to be “paddling in the rain”!

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(** Cue music **)

Sing along to the music, ya’ll can paddle if you want to ..

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Paddling in the rain – a widely scattered shower over Florida Bay.
Paddling in the Rain, Just Paddlin’ and Campin’ in the Rain .. sing along!

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I’m happy again…

Just Paddlin’ in the Rain!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/thematic/paddling-in-the-rain-just-paddlin-and-campin-in-the-rain-sing-along/

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

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Springtime riparian entertainment, photography and kayaking in New Mexico.

Rio Grande at Cochiti Lake,

Abiquiu Lake on the Rio Chama.

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Breathe deep, spring is in the air!

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Large driftwood frames the shoreline of Abiquiu Lake.
Kayaking, photography and riparian entertainment in springtime New Mexico!

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One night I saw the visitors arriving! 😮
Kayaking, photography and riparian entertainment in springtime New Mexico!

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Kayaking on the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.
Kayaking, photography and riparian entertainment in springtime New Mexico!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/kayaking-photography-and-riparian-entertainment-in-springtime-new-mexico/

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

Photo Tech – Pentax Q disassembly and LCD repair – replacement operation.

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Keeping a Pentax Q strong within the Q Continuum!

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Pentax Q disassembly and LCD repair – replacement operation.

Pentax Q disassembly and LCD repair – replacement operation.

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Make it so!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

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Backbone of Night – our Milky Way from the darkness of the Everglades!

The !Kung people of the Kalahari desert consider the Milky Way as the “Backbone of Night” that holds up the sky!

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“When you wish upon a shooting star!”
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part III
The Backbone of Night.

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“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-camping-with-the-stars-part-iii/

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! BLESS – get closer

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

Easter Egg hunt for South Florida paddlers!

Happy Easter from the greater Everglades!

Where are all those Easter Eggs?

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(click on pic to find the eggs!)

Where in the world are the Easter Eggs of the Everglades?

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/thematic/where-in-the-world-are-the-easter-eggs-of-the-everglades/

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Enjoy!

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Was Valentine looking for Love in all the wrong places?

“Valentine’s encounter at Shark Point.

A day dream in the Everglades?”

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Valentine really thought he knew, but was he just looking for Love in all the wrong places?
ART of a Dream – an Everglades encounter at Shark Point.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-a-dream-everglades-valentines-encounter/

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! BLESS – You’re in Love

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

Sweet Dreams are made of Everglades nights like these!

Winter skies in the Everglades are the local

Portal to

the biggest show of all.

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The bigger, brighter and more awesome second Blue Moon of January 2018.
CLICK for more @ Sweet dreams of Everglades winter skies and celestial alignments!

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Get out there and enjoy the dark Everglades night skies!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/thematic/sweet-dreams-of-everglades-winter-skies-and-celestial-alignments/

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! BLESS – get closer

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

What’s that? Imaging the RGB on my CRT!

Leave your cares behind,

and take a journey into the matrix of the

very small kind!

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This mesmerizing matrix of tiny glowing primary color phosphors is actually white.
ART of Primary Colors – the RGB on my CRT!

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I don’t know what the magnification factor is,

but I assure you it is very bigly! 😉

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-primary-colors-the-rgb-on-my-crt/

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

Post-Hurricane Irma kayaking, camping and photography at Cape Romano in the Ten Thousand Islands!

Paddling the Goodland to Cape Romano loop and camping in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.

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Paddling the Goodland to Cape Romano loop and camping in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/random-gallery-2/florida-south-florida/10-000-islands/paddling-the-goodland-to-cape-romano-loop-and-camping-in-the-aftermath-of-hurricane-irma/

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I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

Fourth of July 2017 – Independence Day with less trash, fun paddling and more art!

Happy Independence Day!

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Friends don’t let friends enjoy July 4th and trash Biscayne Bay!

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July 4th aftermath in 2016.
Please help to do your part so we don’t have a repeat in 2017!
All that trash – the ugly side of kayaking in Miami!
CLICK for Story!

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Keep it light, stay cool and have a safe paddling holiday friends!

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But why July to me? 😉
CLICK for story!

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Enjoy the fireworks and stars above!

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“Psychedelic gardens in the Sky”

“Psychedelic gardens in the Sky” aka the July 4th fireworks!
Kayakfari ART photography – ART of Darkness series.
CLICK for more!

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Independence Day
BLESS UP!

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Blessings friends!

Kayak photography and Winter Wonderland paddling at Cochiti Lake on the Rio Grande in New Mexico

Paddling the painted winter landscape.

Discovering the magic of the high desert!

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Winter colors of the high desert in northern New Mexico in this soft landscape!

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The lake speaks in the silence of winter!

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Winter wonderland paddling on Cochiti Lake, New Mexico.

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Northern New Mexico is the “other” Sunshine State!

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Enjoying the outdoors in the dead of winter on the Rio Grande in New Mexico.

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(suggested soundtrack for your viewing!)

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/winter-wonderland-paddling-kayak-photography-at-cochiti-lake-on-the-rio-grande-in-new-mexico/

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Enjoy!

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Peek-a-Boo : BLESS!

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Blessings friends!

Valentine’s encounter in the Everglades – pics or it didn’t happen!

Was it really all just a day dream fantasy?

You’re in Love!

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(Click pic to enter)

“Valentine’s encounter at Shark Point – a day dream in the Everglades?”
CLICK for: ART of a Dream – an Everglades encounter at Shark Point.

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ART of a Dream – an Everglades encounter at Shark Point.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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You may also like the PERFECT DOLL series from PlasticWorlds.com

“Perfect Doll” series from PlasticWorlds.com
Possibly NSFW – but you decide which is art or which is just an illusion!

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Enjoy!

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You’re in Love – BLESS!

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Blessings friends!

Everglades winter skies, celestial alignments and the nicest dreams of 2017!

Winter in the Everglades is the best time to enjoy the biggest show of all.

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“STOP the world – I wanna get off!“
All-sky view of the Milky Way and star trails!

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The universe in the night sky above!

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All-sky star trails in the darkness of the Everglades.

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Stars trailing around Polaris in the northern Florida sky. Light pollution glow at bottom.

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“Galaxyshine“
ART of Darkness – Kayaking the final frontier of imaging and photography!

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To fully appreciate the Everglades winter sky experience, it is worthwhile to paddle out to one of the remote backcountry campsites inside the Park, the Ten Thousand Islands or Florida Bay. The western coastline along the Gulf of Mexico is the best to get farther away from city light pollution.

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The Milky Way with a bright Venus setting in this all-sky 360×180 view from the Everglades.

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Who knows?
Who knows if you happen to get up at 40 minutes to 5am in the Everglades! 😉

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Big Dipper with Polaris at extreme left at Canepatch deep in the Everglades.
CLICK for: Canepatch Indian Mound (Avocado Mound)

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“Silent Night”
Orion and stars reflecting in mirror-like water at Canepatch.
CLICK for story: The Lost Portage – connecting streams in the Everglades!

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“Chickee chilling on Florida Bay under the moon and the stars”
360 spin-around panoramic view in the still of the night from the Johnson Key chickee platform.
Camping on the Johnson Key platform in Florida Bay

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Kayakfari ART photography – “Detonation at Dawn” (extended)
Huge storm system moving over eastern Florida Bay vs orange light pollution glow from Miami.
Chickees and Keys in Florida Bay – Kayaking, Camping and Nice Dreams!

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It’s easy to see why the Everglades has some of the darkest skies – you’re about as far away from all the lights as you can get.

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Florida as seen from the ISS in orbit. You can’t completely get away from all the light pollution, but the Everglades is as dark as it gets!

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“Orbital Maneuvers”
ART of Darkness – Kayaking the final frontier of imaging and photography!

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Sunset afterglow and a nearly whole sky view!
CLICK for story: Winter birthday triad on Florida Bay with the ‘Banana Boat’!

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Celestial alignments show the clockwork of the universe at large.

Of course, the alignments only have meaning to us from our particular vantage point in space!

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Incredible planetary alignment in the southern sky just before dawn last winter in the Everglades!
CLICK for story: Winter birthday triad on Florida Bay with the ‘Banana Boat’!

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“Venus setting over the Gulf of Mexico“
This winter’s featured alignment has been a very bright Venus with Mars above!

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Date: Jan 31, 2017 AD
Observation: Moon, Venus and Mars alignment in the western sky.

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The crescent Moon with Venus and Mars trinity in the sky on January 31, 2017!

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A very bright full moon over Little Rabbit Key in this circular panorama.
The Supermoon of 2016 and the full moon camping experience at Little Rabbit Key.

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Beach camping on Whitehorse Key in the Ten Thousand Islands.
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part I

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Fire, fire burning .. bonfire spewing burnt atoms up into the sky!
Camping at Camp LuLu in the Ten Thousand Islands.

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“Portage to Earth”
ART of Darkness – Kayaking the final frontier of imaging and photography!

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The half moon is a great time to observe lunar features!

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The bright full moon with Jupiter and four of it’s largest ‘Galilean’ moons!
ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part I

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Nearly full moon in early February 2017.

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The penumbral lunar eclipse of February 10, 2017 generated a lot of interest. However, not being a total eclipse, it was not as impressive as the hype might lead one to believe!

We will have a partial lunar eclipse visible from the Everglades in January 2018 and a total eclipse a year later on January 21, 2019!

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The weak penumbral lunar eclipse of February 10, 2017 only shows a slight darkening. However the reduced brightness helps to get a better image of the otherwise extremely bright “snow” full moon!

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In the meantime, enjoy this total eclipse from 2015! 🙂

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A total lunar eclipse taking a bite out of the moon in the fall of 2015.
Harvest moon, Super moon, Blood moon and High Tides of the final tetrad Eclipse of 2015!

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A total lunar eclipse from 2015. One of four visible in the Everglades during 2014 – 2015.
Harvest moon, Super moon, Blood moon and High Tides of the final tetrad Eclipse of 2015!

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Regardless of it’s phase, the moon is always a powerful force affecting all life on planet Earth!

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“Crushing weight of the Moment”
ART of Darkness – Kayaking the final frontier of imaging and photography!

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Check out more lunar action and sky photography from the darkness at:

NIGHT LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY and DIGITAL ART: CAMPING with the STARS!

ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars! Part I

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Get out there and enjoy the Everglades night sky!

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All rights reserved!

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The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

…

I hereby disclaim any sponsorship, endorsement, nor association with any product or service described herein. The photographs, depictions, products, and ideas presented on this site are for informational purposes only. Your results may vary, and I do not imply nor guarantee the effectiveness, suitability, design or operation to adhere to any standard. I assume no legal responsibility for the implementation of anything herein presented! Use any and all information at your own risk! By using any and all information from this website, you accept the final liability for any use or possible associated misuse!

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With that said..
Blessings friends!

The Choice 2016 – a paddler’s option to the USA presidential election!

Are you contemplating either of the two main presidential candidates?

Going to the polls today?

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The Choice : 2016 USA presidential election for the leader of the free kayaking world?!
Face-off in the Everglades from DecoratedReality.com:
Suffrage on the Left  -vs-  a very sharp turn on the Right. 😉

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There is another choice!

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Tim Niemier is the choice of paddlers.

The only candidate who kayaks!

Yes, that’s right, Tim Niemier – the man who brought the Ocean Kayak (sit-on-tops) to the world is running for President of the United States with a “paddle-in” only campaign!

His message is simple:

“I just want folks to remember these kayaks don’t paddle themselves.

My message is that getting on the water puts you in the moment and enhances lives.”

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Go out, paddle & vote!

http://www.canoekayak.com/news/tim-niemier-president

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Enjoy – for entertainment purposes only!

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BLESS!

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All rights reserved!

This is a work of fiction. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. No skeleton, nor person, nor kayak was harmed in the making of this work. The author is sorely responsible for the contents of this work!

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Blessings friends!

Happy Independence Day!

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Enjoy the July 4th fireworks aka

the “Psychedelic gardens in the Sky”.

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“Psychedelic gardens in the Sky” aka the July 4th fireworks!
Kayakfari ART photography – ART of Darkness series.
CLICK for more!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/art-of-darkness-kayaking-the-final-frontier-of-imaging-and-photography/

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Free your mind and your body will follow!

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Mickey Mouse Independence Day
BLESS UP!

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Blessings friends!

Strange Attractor – fantasy art from Kayakfari that reaches further into Space!

Captain’s Blog – Stardate 94033.85 !

Witness a “Strange Attractor” at Carl Ross Key

plus a word from Captain

James T. Sprayskirt:

“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Kayakfari. The continuing mission to create strange new artworks, to seek out new campsites and paddling opportunities, to boldly go where no photographer has gone before.”

(** cue theme music **)

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“Strange Attractor”
Kayakfari ART photography – ART of Darkness series.
Carl Ross Key, Florida Bay, Everglades National Park.
CLICK to enter gallery!

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DIGITAL FANTASY ART kayaking the EVERGLADES, FLORIDA BAY, TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS, BIG CYPRESS and further reaches of outer SPACE.

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ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars!

ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars!

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Enjoy!

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! BLESS UP

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© 2016 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com / decoratedreality.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:: The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

With that said..
Blessings friends!

The 2016 Mercury transit and a Sunset with donuts in the Everglades!

Everything under the Sun!

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Mercury transits across the Sun May 9, 2016.
The little dot at bottom is the charred planet Mercury plus some sunspots above it!

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Transit of Mercury and sunspots with some donuts for sunset!

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Sunset with donuts over Florida Bay.
Bookeh, bookeh, baby!
Available from Kayakfari Art Photography

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Everything under the Sun!  🙂

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Enjoy!

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All rights reserved!

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Everything under the Sun
! Bless

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DISCLAIMER:: The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

With that said..
Blessings friends!

Everglades Easter Egg hunt!

Happy Easter from the Everglades!

Where are all those Easter Eggs?

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(click pic to find the eggs!)

Where in the world are the Easter Eggs of the Everglades?

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/thematic/where-in-the-world-are-the-easter-eggs-of-the-everglades/

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Enjoy!

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© 2016 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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! Trinity – Bless

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More of ‘Camping with the Stars’ from the Everglades!

This week on ‘Camping with the Stars’.

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Now with even more fantastic imagery from the darkness of the Everglades!

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(click any pic for more!)

Temporary tidal space and Faith in Numbers.
Full moon camping on a sandbar in the lower Keys!

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The bright full moon with Jupiter and four of it’s largest moons, winter 2016.

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Closeup of Jupiter and it’s Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

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ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars!

 

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Introducing the 14% larger and 30% brighter supermoon rising over Florida Bay!

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A very cool planetary alignment in the southern sky just before dawn.

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Afterglow of the sunset and a nearly whole sky view as the stars come out to play!

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Bright Venus rising above Johnson Key in the eastern sky before dawn.

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ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars!

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NIGHT LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY and DIGITAL ART from the EVERGLADES, FLORIDA BAY, TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS, BIG CYPRESS & BEYOND!

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Enjoy!

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© 2016 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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!Moonlight – Bless

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A premature Valentine’s Day encounter in the Everglades!

Was it over before it began? You’re in Love!

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A day early, was it over before it began? Happy Valentine’s Day!
CLICK for: ART of a Dream – an Everglades encounter at Shark Point.

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ART of a Dream – an Everglades encounter at Shark Point.

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You may also like the PERFECT DOLL series from PlasticWorlds.com

“Perfect Doll” series from PlasticWorlds.com
Possibly NSFW –  but you decide which is pr0n, which is art or which is an illusion!

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Enjoy!

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You’re in Love – BLESS!

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© 2016 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / plasticworlds.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:: The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

With that said..
Blessings friends!

Kayakfari Fantasy Art that reaches further into Space!

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Captain’s blog – supplemental. Stardate 69365.4 !

Nice dreams at Cape Romano and a word from Captain

James T. Sprayskirt:

“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Kayakfari. The continuing mission to create strange new artworks, to seek out new campsites and paddling opportunities, to boldly go where no photographer has gone before.”

(** cue theme music **)

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(click pic to enter gallery)

“Nice dreams in the Ten Thousand Islands”
Kayakfari ART photography – ART of Darkness series.
Cape Romano, Florida.

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DIGITAL FANTASY ART kayaking the EVERGLADES, FLORIDA BAY, TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS, BIG CYPRESS and further reaches of SPACE.

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ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars!

ART of Darkness – Camping with the Stars!

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Enjoy!

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! BLESSED DREAMS

Paddling around Bahia Honda State Park in Florida’s Keys!

Bahia Honda State Park – Kayaking through history along Florida’s lower Keys. 

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(click to enter)

Bahia Honda State Park – Kayaking through history along Florida’s lower Keys!
“Mind the Gap!”
Also available from Kayakfari ART Photography!

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https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/random-gallery-2/florida-south-florida/florida-bay-keys/bahia-honda-state-park/

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Try these interactive panoramas:

Aerial and VR Panoramas from Kayakfari.com

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/360-vr-panoramas/

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Happy Virtual Paddling – Enjoy!

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BLESS!

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All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:: The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

With that said..
Blessings friends!

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Kayaking Bahia Honda Key – Florida’s lower Keys paddling panoramas!

Three views kayaking around the iconic Bahia Honda Key bridge gateways to Florida’s lower Keys. 

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A lil crashing surf on the limestone rocks of Little Bahia Honda Key frame Henry Flagler’s Overseas Railroad bridge in this Keys colors panorama.
CLICK for interactive panorama!

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Panorama from the top of the sectioned double decker Bahia Honda bridge and the Overseas Highway.
CLICK for interactive panorama!

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A serene 180 panorama from the ocean side beach of Bahia Honda Key with the Seven Mile Bridge in the distance.
CLICK for interactive panorama!

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Try more interactive panoramas:

Aerial and VR Panoramas from Kayakfari.com

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/360-vr-panoramas/

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Happy Virtual Paddling – Enjoy!

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BLESS!
“Buscándote”

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All rights reserved!

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DISCLAIMER:: The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

With that said..
Blessings friends!

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Seeking Higher ground in the Lower Keys and Faith in Numbers!

Part Three:

Temporary tidal space and Faith in Numbers!

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Summertime kayaking and camping in the lower Keys backcountry on a temporary sandbar base location. 

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(click to enter)

“Red tent, Blue tent”
Higher ground in the Lower Keys and Faith in Numbers!
Part Three: Temporary tidal space and Faith in Numbers!
CLICK for story!

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You take the blue tent, the story ends here. You wake up on your thermarest and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red tent, you stay in wonderland, and we’ll just see how deep that rabbit hole goes.

This is your last chance!

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Happy Paddling – Enjoy!

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BLESS!
“Red tent, Blue tent”

 

Seeking Higher ground in the Lower Keys and Faith in Numbers!

Part Two:

A Lower Keys Roundabout!

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Summertime kayaking and exploration of the lower Keys backcountry from a sandbar base location. Featuring kayak photography and paddling and snorkeling Marvin Key and the Snipe Keys!

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(click to enter)

Higher ground in the Lower Keys and Faith in Numbers!
Part Two: A Lower Keys Roundabout!
CLICK for story!

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The Keys are a paradise world of delicious blue-green aquamarine colors and hues.

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Select images available from Kayakfari ART Photography!

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Happy Paddling – Enjoy!

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BLESS ! Yes – Roundabout

 

Seeking Higher ground in the Lower Keys and Faith in Numbers!

Part One:

Exploring a Higher Ground in the Lower Keys!

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Summertime kayaking and exploration of the lower Keys backcountry. Featuring a sandbar shoal, and paddling the Barracuda Keys, Marvin Key and the Snipe Keys!

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Higher ground in the Lower Keys and Faith in Numbers!
Part One – Exploring a Higher Ground!
CLICK for story!

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The Keys are a paradise world of delicious blue-green aquamarine colors and hues.

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Available from Kayakfari ART Photography!

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Happy Paddling – Enjoy!

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BLESS ! HIGHER GROUND

 

Kayaking Marvin and Snipe Keys – Florida’s lower Keys backcountry paddling panoramas!

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A panoramic kayak visit to Marvin Key and Snipe Key in the lower Keys backcountry.

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Aerial birds-eye view panorama of kayakers on the beach at Marvin Key in the lower Florida Keys backcountry.
CLICK for interactive panorama!

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Summertime paddling and exploration of America’s Caribbean paradise!

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Aerial Cormorant’s- eye view panorama of kayakers snorkeling in the mangrove tidal creeks of the Snipe Keys, Florida Keys backcountry.
CLICK for interactive panorama!

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Full story:

Higher ground in the Lower Keys and Faith in Numbers!

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More interactive panoramas:

Aerial and VR Panoramas from Kayakfari.com

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/360-vr-panoramas/

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Kayakfari ART photography

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Happy Paddling – Enjoy!

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Feel the Pressure Drop
BLESS!

 

Kayakers on a sandbar shoal – Florida’s lower Keys backcountry paddling panoramas!

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A panoramic kayak visit to a sandbar shoal in the lower Keys backcountry.

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A 360 aerial Seagull’s eye view panorama of kayakers on a sandbar shoal near the Baracuda Keys, Florida Keys backcountry.
CLICK for interactive panorama!

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Two fine views from a temporary tidal space in America’s Caribbean paradise.

One from above, one from the ground!

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A crab’s eye view panorama from ground level on a sandbar shoal near the Baracuda Keys, Florida Keys backcountry.
CLICK for interactive panorama!

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Full story:

Higher ground in the Lower Keys and Faith in Numbers!

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More interactive panoramas:

Aerial and VR Panoramas from Kayakfari.com

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/360-vr-panoramas/

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Kayakfari ART photography

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Happy Paddling – Enjoy!

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Feel the Pressure Drop
BLESS!

 

Happy Independence Day – July 4th Kayaking and ART!

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Happy July 4th!

Celebrating INDEPENDENCE:

Independence from England (but that was 230+ years ago)!

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Independence of Travel (that’s kayaking!)

Independence of Mind and Thought (what Art does!)

Financial Independence (still working on that!)  😉

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Enjoy kayaking the July 4th fireworks and

“Psychedelic gardens in the Sky” !

 

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“Psychedelic gardens in the Sky” on July 4th!
Kayakfari ART photography – ART of Darkness series.

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Have a great & safe paddling holiday weekend –

Happy Independence Day!

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“Mickey Mouse Freedom”

Kayaking to historic Alligator Reef Lighthouse in Florida’s Upper Keys!

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Florida Keys’  unique paddling, swimming and snorkeling destination. Revised and updated!

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Alligator Light, summer of 1982.
Kayaking to Alligator Light Reef .. of Fishes, Wreckers, Pirates and Keys History!

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“I have seen the Light, have you?”

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This one for all the divers..
Bless!

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© 2015 Flex Maslan / kayakfari.com / awakenthegrass.com. All original photographs, artworks and music in this portfolio are copyrighted and owned by the artist, Flex Maslan, unless otherwise noted. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.

All rights reserved.

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DISCLAIMER:: The maps and images on this site are not intended for navigation, I am not a guide; use any and all information at your own risk! Your mileage may vary .. so use good judgement before venturing out!

With that said..
Blessings friends!

🙂

Extreme Birdwatching – a surreal digital art series from DecoratedReality.com

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(from http://www.decoratedreality.com)

SURREAL DIGITAL ART from the Everglades, Florida Bay, Ten Thousand Islands and beyond.

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“Extreme Birdwatching”

(click pic)

Decorated Reality – Lost in the Desert (Peek-a-Boo!)

 

http://decoratedreality.wordpress.com/decorated-reality-2/extreme-birdwatching/

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Enjoy!

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029 – Peek-a-Boo!

 

 

Alt Jesus Study – a surreal digital art series from DecoratedReality.com

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(from http://www.decoratedreality.com)

From Jesus to Christ to Art ..

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Alt Jesus Study is a non-religious but spiritual look at the meaning of sacrifice, rebirth, fertility and duality. Exploration of symbolism and culture as represented in the forms of Jesus and northern hemisphere Western Mythology.

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“Octomessiah”
Alt Jesus Study – DecoratedReality.com

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SURREAL DIGITAL ART of Flex Maslan

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You may also like:

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ART of the Rio Grande – Anthropomorphic magic forms and Riparian voices

“Nativity in Ice”
ART of the Rio Grande – Anthropomorphic magic forms and Riparian voices

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Enjoy!

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! Blessing

ART of the Rio Grande in winter: Riparian voices and Anthropomorphic magic forms!

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Anthropomorphic magic forms and Riparian voices of the Rio Grande at Cochiti Lake.

When kayaking and photographing the high desert in winter, a host of magic forms appear!

(click pic)

“Trinity on Ice”
Kayakfari ART photography – ART of the Rio Grande series.

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Enjoy!

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Trinity – BLESS!

 

Friday the 13th Pre-Valentines Day dreaming and paddling in the Everglades!

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ART of a Dream – an Everglades encounter at Shark Point.

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He went kayaking in the Everglades.

He was a day early!

(click pic to enter)

ART of a Dream – an Everglades encounter at Shark Point.

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Was she real?

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Happy Valentines Day!

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Enjoy!

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You may also like the PERFECT DOLL series from PlasticWorlds.com

“Perfect Doll” series from PlasticWorlds.com
Possibly NSFW, but you decide which is pr0n, which is art or which is an illusion!

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BLESS the Women!

Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne aerial panorama!

Historic light at the tip of Bill Baggs State Park, with nearby Stiltsville in the distance.

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Cape Florida lighthouse on Key Biscayne at Bill Baggs St Park, aerial seagull’s eye view.
CLICK for interactive panorama – try it on your smart phone!

Kayakfari ART photography

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Try more interactive panoramas here:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/360-vr-panoramas/urban-paddling-aerial-vr-panoramas/

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Happy paddling!

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Click 4 Bless!

 

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The curious case of George and the Australopithecine Island Village at Cape Romano!

Long live George and the Australopithecine dream!

(click pic to enter)

ART of Cape Romano – The curious inhabitants of Australopithecine Island

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George was king!

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Enjoy!

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CLICK Australopithecine Blessings!

 

Only in Miami: Kayaking to Stiltsville in Biscayne Bay

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Kayak Miami: Explore the Stiltsville village in Biscayne Bay!

Paddling out to Miami’s iconic Stiltsville.

(click pic)

Kayak Miami: Stiltsville Village in Biscayne Bay

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Have a great weekend!

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(Please ignore any ads you might see below)

It takes a kayaker to photograph a Stiltsville village!

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ART of the Bay – Visions of Stiltsville and Biscayne Bay landscapes.

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Enjoy this extended kayak photography mix from Stiltsville and Biscayne Bay!

(click pic)

“Psychedelic playground” at Stiltsville
Kayakfari ART photography – Miami’s Stiltsville village on Biscayne Bay

I recommend to first scroll through the entire mix – then go back to the individual images!

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More Kayakfari ART here:

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/kayakfari-art/

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Paddling towards the Light – the historic Alligator Reef Lighthouse.

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Florida Keys summertime paddling. C’mon in, the water’s fine!

(click pic)

Aerial view from the top!
From the book “Florida Bay Forever: A Story of Water from the Everglades to the Keys”

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Have a great weekend everyone!

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(Please ignore any ads you might see below)

The surreal digital art and photography of Flex Maslan at Moksha Roots Live!

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SURREAL DIGITAL ART and aerial panoramic photography from the Everglades by Flex Maslan.

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Honored and very pleased to be one of two featured artists at this month’s Art Exhibit at Moksha Family Arts Collective in North Miami.

Presented by 7th Circuit Productions.

Friday, June 20th, 2014   :  8-10pm

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On display will be several large format and aerial panoramic prints from kayakfari.com along with the surreal “Extreme Birdwatching“ series from decoratedreality.com .

Nothing like seeing art in person!

(click pic & join faceBook invite)

The surreal digital art and photography of Flex Maslan at Moksha Roots Live!

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ART OPENING & JAM STARTS @ 8pm

FREE ADMISSION BEFORE 10:00pm

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7th Circuit Productions / Moksha Gallery

228 N.E. 59th. ST.

MIAMI, FL 33137

305-757-7277

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See YOU there!

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(Please ignore any ads you might see below)

SURREAL DIGITAL ART from the Everglades by Flex Maslan – DECORATED REALITY

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(from http://www.decoratedreality.com)

SURREAL DIGITAL ART from the Everglades by Flex Maslan.

(click pic)

Decorated Reality – Extreme Birdwatching series

Extreme Birdwatching series

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Enjoy!

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You may also like – Everglades and Florida Bay landscape photography :

EVERGLADES LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY from FLORIDA BAY

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Read about where some of these images came from  – paddling on Florida Bay:

Chickees and Keys in Florida Bay – Kayaking, Camping and Nice Dreams!

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Paddling in a Winter Wonderland – kayak ice breaking on the Rio Grande

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For immediate ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE from the high desert of northern New Mexico! 😉

(click pic)

And now for something completely different – Kayak Ice Breaking! 😉

https://kayakfari.wordpress.com/trips-sea-stories-pics/winter-wonderland-paddling-kayak-photography-at-cochiti-lake-on-the-rio-grande-in-new-mexico/paddling-in-a-winter-wonderland-kayak-ice-breaking-on-the-rio-grande/

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Enjoy!

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Winter Wonderland paddling – kayak photography at Cochiti Lake on the Rio Grande in New Mexico

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Paddling the winter beauty and magic of the high desert in northern New Mexico!

(click pic)

“Wood-b-Predator” – an anthropomorphic driftwood piece that found me!

Winter Wonderland paddling – kayak photography at Cochiti Lake on the Rio Grande in New Mexico.

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Enjoy!

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