The Friends of the Lower Suwannee & Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges, El Camino de Santiago, and the Summer of a Thousand Cheeses are keeping us with lots of new challenges, and even retirement-style deadlines.
Russ is working on a Paddling Guide to 12 trails in the Lower Suwannee Refuge. His focus is the biology of what you see along each trail, while his partner on the project maps out the trails themselves. They're planning to come up with multi-media, maybe even interactive materials...print, laminated carry-alongs, downloadable voice descriptions, blogs where paddlers can input information about their observations along the trails...maybe more. The Refuge just received some additional funding to support material production. So, activity is about to gear up even more.
We didn't even own kayaks until this project captured us. It gave us a great excuse, and we are becoming almost skilled enough at using them to get in and out without falling in the drink.
I developed an electronic newsletter (
this link will take you to the issue that went out yesterday) and set up a website
(here it is.) And, it has actually been sort of fun to run the Board Meetings since taking them on in last month. We worked the Friends Booth at the Cedar Key Arts Festival and will work it next Saturday at the Suwannee Stone Crab Festival.
We've had jam sessions and Friends Lectures on Fish, Ticks, Archaeology, and Geology.
But Russ's project gets the gold star for getting us out into the Refuge itself.
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