It has become kind of a tradition. Each year, a group of kayaking and canoeing enthusiasts, mostly from central Pennsylvania, meet down in Florida to paddle segments of some very scenic, interesting rivers. We generally use a state park in one part of Florida as a "base camp" for a week and explore six different rivers near that park. Then we move to another part of Florida and do the same thing in that area. Our usual pattern is to visit three regions in Florida for a week each, for a total of three weeks of Florida rivers. People join our group for as much or as little time as they like In early March of this year, about 16 paddlers from Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, and Ontario traveled to the Hillsborough River State Park, near Tampa, Florida. We used this beautiful park as our base camp for our first week of Florida rivers. We met up with our trip leader, Lori, and about 15 paddlers from Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, a...