Sometimes you just stumble over a gem by accident. This is exactly what happened when we decided to stop for a ‘little look’ at Myakka River State Park, on a trip up the west coast of Florida last year. Myakka River State Park is located about nine miles east of I-75 in Sarasota in Sarasota County. […]
Paddling in Florida
The Dora Canal – An Afternoon Spent Gliding Into Another World

The Dora Canal links the two lakes of Dora and Eustis, and as far as I could glean from my limited research on this, it is partly man-altered and partly natural. Previously aptly named ‘Elfin River’, the Dora Canal, as we know it today, came into being officially in the late 1800’s, when the captain […]