Our plan was always to take the ICW down but with such light winds on Saturday we decided to go outside. The winds were not much better there and we did a lot of bobbing around waiting for a breeze. We headed in to Sarasota to be beaten around by high speed boats. As night fell the traffic died down but the wind was no better. There was a lot of peddling and paddling with little progress. I would point out we started this fearing pythons and gators but with a little LED stern light, drunk boaters quickly became more scary. One guy jump a wake, injured a girl on board, then decided to go full throttle again only to hit a sand bar. We watched all this as we slogged along. We started looking for a camping spot around 10PM with no luck. Mangroves simply come out of the water. No soil for a tent so we proceeded on. We found ourselves in the canal behind the Venice airport that night about 1AM. We were traveling with a couple kayaks and an SUP (stand up paddle boarder) and then the fog rolled in. We found a dock attached to a park and slept on it with shrimp heads from the last fishing effort. It was better than the ground but not much.
Approximate total distance: 52.3 miles
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