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Kayaking the Keys: 50 Great Paddling Adventures in Florida's Southernmost Archipelago
by Kathleen Patton

This field guide to the entire island chain highlights 50 paddling adventures, many for canoeists as well as kayakers. Trips include short paddles suitable for beginners and children, half-day trips as well as day-long and overnight excursions.

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Contents

List of Illustrations   xxx

List of Tables   xxx

Preface   xxx

1. Why Kayaking the Keys?  

What You Can Expect  

A Look Around  

2. Before Heading Out  

What to Paddle  

What to Pack  

How to Navigate  

How to Read Keys Water  

How to Read Keys Weather  

3. Kayak Trips in the Florida Keys  

Mile Markers  

Maps  

Paddling Times  

Trip Descriptions and Comments  

Notes  

Tidal Differences  

Icons  

Trip # 1. Biscayne National Park: Elliott Key to Boca Chita Key—Overnight Camp  

Trip # 2. Biscayne National Park: Elliott Key to Old Rhodes Key—Overnight Camp  

Trip # 3. Everglades National Park: Flagler Railroad Ruins  

Trip # 4. Dusenbury Creek: In Search of the Elusive Manatee  

Trip # 5. John Pennekamp State Park Canoe Trail  

Trip # 6. Bottle Key: Roseate Spoonbill Habitat  

Trip # 7. Inside and around Shell Key  

Trip # 8. Lignumvitae Key: Trip to a Virgin Tropical Forest and Historic Homestead  

Trip # 9. A Paddle and Tour of Indian Key  

Trip # 10. The Wreck of the San Pedro  

Trip # 11. Long Beach Bight and Beach  

Trip # 12. Long Key State Park Canoe Trail  

Trip # 13. Curry Hammock State Park: A Paddle off Fat Deer Key  

Trip # 14. Sisters Creek  

Trip # 15. (Better than) Money Keys  

Trip # 16. Circumnavigating Bahia Honda Key  

Trip # 17. No Name Key: Around the Key Deer’s Forest  

Trip # 18. Exploring the Tidal Creeks of Cutoe Key  

Trip # 19. Snorkeling the Patch Reefs off the Newfound Harbor Keys  

Trip # 20. Getting Lost in the Torches  

Trip # 21. Out to the Content Keys  

Trip # 22. Circumnavigating Toptree Hammock Key  

Trip # 23. Circumnavigating Little Knockemdown Key  

Trip # 24. The Bay on Knockemdown Key  

Trip # 25. Birding through the Budd Keys to Hurricane Key  

Trip # 26. Tarpon Belly Key and the Little Swash Keys  

Trip # 27. Riding Key and Sawyer Key  

Trip # 28. Perky Creek  

Trip # 29. Up and around Upper Sugarloaf Sound  

Trip # 30. Five Mile Creek  

Trip # 31. Sugarloaf Creek  

Trip # 32. Patch Reef Bonanza Shuttle Trip: Sugarloaf Key to Geiger Key  

Trip # 33. Skinny-Water Kayaking in the Saddlebunches  

Trip # 34. Similar Sound  

Trip # 35. Saddlebunch Bay  

Trip # 36. Geiger Coral Heads  

Trip # 37. West Washerwoman Reef  

Trip # 38. Geiger Creek  

Trip # 39. Circumnavigating Geiger Key  

Trip # 40. Halfmoon Key  

Trip # 41. Duck Key and Fish Hawk Key  

Trip # 42. Tidal Creeks of the Northern Snipe Keys and Snipe Point Beach  

Trip # 43. Mud Keys  

Trip # 44. Channel Key  

Trip # 45. Around and through Cayo Agua  

Trip # 46. Lower Harbor Keys  

Trip # 47. Key West Beaches and Coral Heads  

Trip # 48. Just West of Key West  

Trip # 49. Dry Tortugas National Park: Day Trip  

Trip # 50. Dry Tortugas National Park: Overnight Camp  

Index

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