Day 3

Day 2

Day/Night 1

We're on day number 4 and ahead of schedule. We had planned on making it to St. Augustine tonight, but made it last night. This gives us only a few hours of paddling today. We'll be meeting up with one of the trail keepers, Jan, who will put us up for the night then paddle with us for a day or two. Things are going better than expected. For those of you that were worried.....Randy is still alive. For most of the trail from Ft. Clinch to St. Augustine we have been against the tide/current and against the wind, but we get up early and take our time so we're not over doing it, and we paddle until we find a place to camp, which hasn't been exactly easy on this leg. Low tides leave
3 mile mudflats to cross to get to solid land so my feet have had extensive mud treatments, but for some reason it's not improving the condition of my feet!?!?!? We've been attacked by manatees twice, we've been led down alligator trails that go nowhere but to alligators, go figure, and my favorite of all are the killer mosquito's, which we completely expected, have been the worst to this point. Not to bad. There should be a few photo's posted with this so look for them. We'll update again as soon as possible.

1 Week to departure and counting...1...2...3...4

Well everything has happened incredibly quick since returning from New Orleans in early March and deciding kayak the Florida Cirumnavigation Saltwater Paddling Trail instead of the Appalachian Trail. From Randy joining me on the trip to taking on the challenge of using the trip to raise money for Sierra Factor who has "Spinal Muscular Atrophy". Sierra needs to travel to China to receive stem cell injections that will hopefully improve her quality and length of life drastically. Randy and I still have a few little wrinkles to iron out, but just about everything seems in place. We'll leave one week from today, April 27th and plan to take about 3 1/2 months to complete this. I will be the first female to complete the trip, if I complete the trip and Randy will be the oldest at 53 (ha, finally someone older than me). We've not had much time to train but I think it'll end up being a "train as you go" process, which is fine, it means I can focus my energy on getting equipment ready and raising money. Randy and I have gotten out to paddle a couple times, one 10 mile trip and one 20 mile trip. Randy's usual comment is "slow down, I didn't know we were racing". Hopefully his paddling pace will gradually pick up to mine. Our immediate plan is to have a laptop with us so everyone can keep up with us through the blog and we'll also have a "SPOT" so you can follow our progress nightly when we set up camp. At this point.........everyone, wish us luck (and Sierra!),