Who says you can’t have too much of a good thing 😉? After spending a week at Bahia Honda State Park 🏝️, nobody was ready to leave the Florida Keys 🔑. With warm weather 🔥 and sunshine 🌞 in the forecast, we decided to stay a few more days. We got lucky again and took advantage of another last minute cancellation, this time at Curry Hammock State Park in Marathon, FL. We have always wanted to paddle board through mangroves, and Curry Hammock State Park is the place to do it. The kayak and paddle run is a loop and it not only leads to the mangroves, but takes you through a mangrove tunnel that runs through the park. If you are not familiar with mangroves, they are groups of trees and shrubs that grow mainly in coastal areas. They provide protection for the shore and habitat for wildlife. We set up our boards from our campsite 🏕️, and after short walk to the launch we were on the water 🌊. We immediately ran into some curious manatees 🐋 that hung around us for several minutes. Then we made our way to the mangrove tunnel where we saw crabs 🦀, fish 🐠, and even a snake 🐍. We also paddled under a bridge 🌉. It was quite the experience, and there were multiple times we had to duck down to get under the mangroves . You have to pay attention to the tides on the paddle run. If the tide is too high you can’t get through them, and if it is too low there isn’t enough water to make it through. The mangroves were everything we had hoped they would be and we had an awesome day on the water 💦. While we were at Curry Hammock we also went to the beach 🏖️, attended a community fire 🔥, and hung out with some bus 🚌 friends that lived nearby. Cara is claustrophobic so the idea of paddling through mangroves made her nervous 😬, but she made it through 😂. How about you? Would you paddle through mangroves? Want to know what else we did in the Florida Keys 🔑? Stay tuned and we will share more soon ❤️. Don’t forget to save this post ✅!
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