#KAYAK LAUNCH FREE#

Therefore, once Anton was with me, we went left. To the right off the launch was an a channel, which wouldn’t lead us to Weeki Wachee… I got in first, and you can see there’s Anton getting in second ( teal and black shirt/straw hat). There were no gates that can be locked, only some basic chain link border fences in places when we drove in, we observed some signage that said it was cool to be there at that time and parked near the launch. There were two cars parked-one was parked flanking the kayak launch and the other was a county vehicle near the facilities where two persons in uniforms performed some sort of maintenance. We packed up and hit the road around 6:30am, took I-75 north for the first half and then a bunch of back country roads for the second until we arrived promptly as scheduled. The times for park opening posted on line are inconsistent ( one said 9am, another said 24/7, but most city/county operations open at 8 or sunrise) which resulted in a planned arrival for around 7:45am is we were early we would drive around/explore and maybe find a gas station to get some coffee or snacks or something until it did.

#KAYAK LAUNCH FREE#

So we took the vaguely cheaper and more secluded option of using a small park 6 miles downstream called Rogers Park that has $10 parking fee but otherwise free boat and kayak launch. Anton and I had originally wanted to go to Weeki Wachee Springs State Park and kayak downriver and then back, but we learned that the park might be busy that time of year because it had a water park and about the fee per person to use the kayak launch.

Kayak launch