The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-09
Pleasant Ocklawaha Trip.

Baby, guests of the season at Grove |
Hall made arrangements with Capt /
Will Miller last week to take 4 par
ty Of guests from the hall on a rip
up the Ocklawaha river on his
launch, st. Johns. This was to be
the first trip of the kind ever taken
from this place direct, and much in !
terest centered in it. The party
which left on Wednesday morning of
last week consisted of the following:
Mr.. and Mrs. James G. Lyon, Mr.. |
and Mrs. Currier, Miss Hollybird, |
Miss Elizabeth D. Rice, DR., and Mrs.
A. c. Thompson, Mrs. William Pipe
and Messrs Wadsworth and Baby.
Miss Helen Norton provided the
party with a tempting and generous
luncheon for the day and the start
was made at 6:20 in the morning. We
will let Mr.. Baby tell the story of
the trip, as he did to representa-
tive of the News:
at was a pretty morning, not
cold and not a ripple was on the
pretty lake as we started out, every
one in high spirits. The main cabin
of the st. Johns is forward of the
engine room and was enclosed with
glass. The mems cabin and smok-
ing room is aft of the engine room
and the library opposite on the port
side. Everything was made as COM
Portable as possible for US, and we
had a quick run across the lake and
entered Dunn's Creek at 1925. This
is a beautiful stream nine miles
long and mites the lake with the st.
Johns river, which we entered at 1886,
and then headed for Welaka which
we reached at 10:40. In ten minutes
more we had entered the famous Ock-
| lawaha. This is a stream over 100
miles long, about 80 feet wide and
varies in depth from six to nine feet.
1t runs through the most tropical
section of Florida. The land on
either side doesn't appear to be over
six inches above the water. The
Jungle is densely filled with cypress,
palm and oak trees and we ran for
miles at stretch without seeing a
human being. At no place was there
over 500 feet of straight channel,
Just a continuous winding, and at
every turn we came TpOn something
new and interesting. AS soon as we
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+ba frsf oIlirator Vnrv soon Miss
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