Recreation

Exploring Florida — Kayaking the Waccasassa and Wekiva Rivers

Living in Florida we are pretty blessed to be surrounded by water, giving us mulitple oppourtunities to explore. Whether you like the Ocean or Gulf or rivers or lakes, Florida has it all. We just recently got a pair of kayaks and have enjoyed not only scouting for launch spots but exploring areas you wouldn’t normally get to see.

On this kayaking adventure we decieded to put in at the public boat ramp on the Waccasassa River located in Levy County, off of county road 326. This boat ramp gets quite a bit of action with people putting in and going down river to the Gulf of Mexico. Kayaking on a river means there is a current, so we put in and went up river as to do all the hard paddling first and then the return trip is basically letting the current take you back. Our destination is the clear waters of the Wekiva river, located up the river a ways. Neither the Waccasassa or the Wekiva are very wide and in some places the Wekiva gets very shallow. The water of the Wacasassa is a dark brown but the Wekiva is clear as can be and you […]

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