this is officially my favorite place to kayak in florida
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oh hi mom and dad beautiful you must come to wikiwatchi to kayak on this river the first reason
i think it's obvious this is beautiful and the entire river looks like this it's not parts of it
it's the entire thing and it's clear to the bottom and the views are amazing the
next reason you'll see amazing wildlife while you're here i'm crossing my fingers for manatees
the guys at the beginning told me it was around a 50 50 chance we'd see them i haven't
seen one yet but it ain't over but you'll see everything from beautiful birds cranes
cardinals to turtles in the water tons of schools fish and there's the fish
okay that was a lot of fish the amazing thing is you're going with the current
so you don't actually have to paddle if you don't want to so this is uh it's not a workout and the
amazing thing is that they will pick you up at the end and drive you back to your car
it goes up the ramp can i ride the ramp i want to ride in the ramp do you have fun
a helpful tip another way of doing it because you have to reserve a kayak
in advance for the state park and if you see that they're booked up keep checking the reservations
because people can cancel up to 24 hours beforehand so we got into this 9 30 a.m time slot
because someone had cancelled but the other way to do it is to rent a kayak from private places
along the river it does mean you'd have to paddle yourself back to the kayak shop duck
but you can still get the experience if the state park is out of kayaks
a beautiful way to explore the outdoors but you don't want to come here when it's raining so make
sure you come with good weather another thing to note though is as beautiful as this place
is you can't get in the water so you're not allowed to get out of your vessel
and you have to stay in your boat which means if you're hot you want to cool off
water's really cold we have a little bit of cloud cover today so it's
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crystal river trip one of my most favorite places in the world to travel to make sure you check the
playlist of all the other videos as well as the full blog post and let's get back to it
oh my mom is reading the wiki travel right now which we'll link below another way of seeing
this is via the river cruises so if you don't actually want to be on a kayak and paddle like my
dad is then you can just sit on a boat and there's mermaids mermaids and you and those that want to
get some exercise they can travel upstream rather than downstream sounds like too much work
so how far are you floating it's 2.8 miles and one thing that's really helpful is the gps coordinates
of where you get picked up at it's helping us because this rental is exactly two hours
and you're not allowed to go over it but if you paddle you will get there in like 30 minutes or
less and we don't want to rush to the end but i want to have a gauge of where we are versus the
end so i put the gps coordinates in google maps and when i look at it on satellite i'm
able to track where we are on the river so consider checking that in the blog post below
one of the other amazing things about this spot is that even though they are
oversold and they overbooked kayaks today there's actually not that many people so we
haven't really been seeing anyone else on the river it's pretty big again 2.8 miles
2.8 miles and so it's nice because it really feels like we're here just on our own it's awesome
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