Mac
Senior Member
MY suggestion really do you home work before signing up for this adventure. Plus I would suggest not take any small children.
Just got back from a trip to Floyd's Island,
Beautiful place, cabin was very neat, two does and a fawn (very tiny) walked through the front yard only a few feet from where I was cooking breakfast yesterday morning.
The paddle from the state park for the first 6.5 miles was very nice although we were fighting the current with a heavily loaded canoe, I had my 11 year old son and a buddy and his 9 year old were also in a loaded canoe.
When we turned off the main channel onto the permit only canoe trail, that is when the fun really started. Very narrow channel 5 to 6 feet wide, sections chocked with lily pads, blown down trees across the trail, low water with leaves within 3 inches of the surface. Needless to say some really hard paddling. Then add the yellow flies by the thousands, biting any exposed skin and 99% deet did no good, I took a bath in the stuff. The last 150 yards before the island only had a couple inches of water so we had to get out and pull our canoes. This was great since I had already seen two huge cotton mouths on the trail coming up to the island.
Old saying I am glad I went but no way I would make this trip again.
The steak and baked potato dinner and omelet with sausage/bacon and toast made the stay on the island more pleasant, but I was dreading the paddle out from the minute I set foot on the island.
I will post some pictures when I get a change to download them.
Just got back from a trip to Floyd's Island,
Beautiful place, cabin was very neat, two does and a fawn (very tiny) walked through the front yard only a few feet from where I was cooking breakfast yesterday morning.
The paddle from the state park for the first 6.5 miles was very nice although we were fighting the current with a heavily loaded canoe, I had my 11 year old son and a buddy and his 9 year old were also in a loaded canoe.
When we turned off the main channel onto the permit only canoe trail, that is when the fun really started. Very narrow channel 5 to 6 feet wide, sections chocked with lily pads, blown down trees across the trail, low water with leaves within 3 inches of the surface. Needless to say some really hard paddling. Then add the yellow flies by the thousands, biting any exposed skin and 99% deet did no good, I took a bath in the stuff. The last 150 yards before the island only had a couple inches of water so we had to get out and pull our canoes. This was great since I had already seen two huge cotton mouths on the trail coming up to the island.
Old saying I am glad I went but no way I would make this trip again.
The steak and baked potato dinner and omelet with sausage/bacon and toast made the stay on the island more pleasant, but I was dreading the paddle out from the minute I set foot on the island.
I will post some pictures when I get a change to download them.