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Originally Posted by dex
Thanks for reminding us about why we chose the RE path.
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you got it dex. this is what it's all about.
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Originally Posted by FinanceDude
Beautiful scenery....nice bike!!
I lived in Port Charlotte for a year about 20 years ago, but the summer killed me with humidity, and I moved back to the Midwest............
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ya. summers here are harder to take the older i get. i don't do the everglades in summer. two hot and buggy. but the coasts are tolerable to exercise some. mostly in summer i exercise at night. gotta great light system for my roadie. i ride very late and night or early in morning when few cars on out yet. either that or take the car down the the hall of fame and swim laps there. there's always ways to beat the heat.
love that bike. really good engineering. got best bike award year i got it. it's overkill for double track trails but still way fun to ride. also great for urban assaults. i originally got it to ride technical single tracks. i still ride but not nearly as aggressive as when i started or since that last set of endovers. so now on single track i button up in protective gear which makes me look like darth vader.
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Originally Posted by Sandy
Looks a lot like the levees up in the northern part of the state in St. Marks national wildlife refuge. Sure wish I was there today. Thanks for the RE incentive
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hadn't heard of
st. marks. looks real nice. i was thinking of taking a summer road trip just in florida biking through all the state, national, local parks from the panhandle down. there's supposed to be some nice ones on west coast, one in everglades and one that runs an old rail line through a bunch of towns. also i think they built or are building a trail along that canal that was supposed to cut through the state, i think from the st. johns river heading westsouthwest.
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Originally Posted by mclesters
Cool place, Lazy! I love going out into the wildlife management areas around our state. Great places to enjoy nature and get some exercise.
Here's the Donnelly WMA, which has several flooded rice fields full of gators and the berms like in your place. The other shot is a James Island salt marsh.
Sarah
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beautiful pics sarah. i've heard the south carolina coast is really pretty. meant to check it out after i did leaf peeping on the blueridge parkway last autumn but as i was heading east and saw i-95 this voice kept calling to me "go home. your own bed. go home. your own food. go home. so i went home."
i'll check out your coast another time. looking forward to it.
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Originally Posted by TromboneAl
Thanks LGFNB, I think I'll go on a bike ride today and take a lunch.
Keep working on getting close to the gators and let us know how it goes. Ha ha.
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and take some pictures. make us jealous.
those gators aren't too bad. i have no idea how two people got eaten last year. one time i was in a canoe just 3 feet off the raised bank where was lounging a 15-16 footer (seriously about the same size as the canoe). he looked pretty well fed. didn't look like he needed to eat me. maybe i was being stoopid but i actually felt completely safe. there are amazing creatures. so ancient. i love'm.