By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Inside.
Inside our home away from home, pitched on the tiny Magic Key in Estero Bay, FL, we catch a few hours’ sleep before another night of paddling during the 2014 WaterTribe Everglades Challenge…
More photos from the Everglades Challenge are here.
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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| Johna Till Johnson on And They’re Off! |
Wind Against Current 
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Now I want to know if you had alligator visitors, so close to the water! Or snakes…
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No alligators, no snakes… this time at least!! We did see quite a few lizards, but they’re friendly (and eat the bugs, see below).
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Well, that was good for you!
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how do you fight with mosquitos?
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You don’t, they’ve already won. :-) Seriously, your best bet is bug-proof attire: Bug net over hat, clothing with gaskets at wrists, neck, and ankles.
Fortunately Magic Key is in a nice breezy location so we had very little trouble with bugs…but other places we were not so lucky!
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poor you :) I knew that but had to ask :P Also I had to say ‘sharing is caring’, so feed those little babies there :P
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Thanks! We haven’t tried it yet but are thinking of getting a little into kayak fishing…
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A perfect entry for this week’s challenge. Looks like your tent was camped inside a perfect spot of greenery :)
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We love Magic Key! It’s a tiny key in Estero Bay that doesn’t appear on any charts, as far as we can tell. We call it Magic Key because, during our Everglades Shakedown paddle in April 2013, it providentially appeared, a single campable key among all the mangroves, just when we were anxiously looking for a campsite at the end of a long day… So now we’ve camped there twice and been very happy each time :-)
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Looks beautiful.
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quite cozy…looks like a geat place to camp!
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Cozy indeed! Just enough space for a single tent, a few inches above the high-water mark—although we’ve never felt completely secure about the latter… ;-)
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Oh Marilyn.. it was lovely. Even though it took us several hours out of our way (which ultimately cost us), I’m glad we went. Waking up in the afternoon sunlight and feeling that cool breeze on my skin was one of the highlights of the trip.
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I can only imagine!… love reading of your travels…
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Great :)
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Thanks! :-)
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They Keys are just magical! Loved these shots, Vlad.
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They are indeed! Thanks, Eric! :-)
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I love that second one.
janet
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We too wished we could have looked at it longer… :-)
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looks so fragile Vlad :)
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It should stand up to gale-force winds! Although that’s something we have not yet tested… :-)
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hope you never have to but with the climate the way it is now anything can happen …
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:-)
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I love the light from within but I think I would have to sleep with one eye open… :)
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That’s something we do often, waking up every hour to listen to the sounds of the tide rising toward the boats and tent, so that we can pack up and get going at the last moment… and sometimes we do cut it uncomfortably close… :-)
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Perfect photos for the challenge. I can almost feel the fresh air!!!
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It was a beautiful, fresh, sunny day! We didn’t feel guilty about lazing about during the daytime because we had paddled through all of the previous night, and were ready to do it again through the night to come… :-)
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Now that is a campsite I could get used to! Nice soft sand, the water only a step away from your door, I’m not sure I’d share it’s location with anybody :-)
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As with any real estate on the market, of course, there are some aspects that are best downplayed. The island is not soft sand, but rather sharp shell fragments. The property is likely to be completely flooded at high tide in even a mild storm. And it’s very close to the busy waterway that winds its way through the bay, so that, during the day at least, there’s frequent noise from boisterous passing boaters and wakes hitting the beach.
Even though these boaters pass close by, none of them land on the island because it’s just one of many around, with apparently nothing special about it, and because it’s surrounded by very shallow water. But it seems that locals occasionally use the island for private relaxation: the last time we were there, in April 2013, we found a nice chair there, very convenient for sunset and sunrise viewing—
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A long way from NY! Congrats on your adventure.
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Thanks!! :-)
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It has been a long time for me camping in the greeneries..
I really love your photos.
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Thanks!! :-)
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That inside the tent shot makes a nice abstract. I’m jealous – missing going camping with the cubs and scouts at present.
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And inside the tent, especially a colorful one, it always seems to be bright and cheerful, like the sun is shining outside—until you actually look outside ;-)
This latest tent, however, we got in as drab a color as possible, so as not to stand out too much…
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Beautiful and loved the inside of the tent! :)
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Thanks!! :-)
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:)
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I love the shot of the patterns on the inside of the tent. I’ve taken a few myself, and wish I could also record some of the great sounds of nature I hear as I lie there.
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You can! A video camera (or phone) will do it…
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Very true!
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