Paddling up Hogans Creek

deathstar · November 27, 2008, 01:53:55 AM

The Indianapolis Canal Walk is so simple, and looks very calming indeed. I can't believe, of all my 26 years of living here, that a website I found by accident one day through a Google search, has shown me more of Jacksonville in less than a year, than I could ever imagine was here. I've got so much exploring to do, and I honestly can admit, I was BORED before I found this place. I'll have to mention Hogans Creek to my Dad and Grandfather, they'd enjoy canoeing there!

GatorShane · December 03, 2008, 11:32:50 AM

I can only dream of what could be done with this!

JaxNative68 · December 23, 2008, 11:24:55 AM

And I thought I was cynical about how Jacksonville has ignored its potential and natural beauty for decades, but Ocklawaha you have me beat today.

Maybe if the city quit squandering our taxpayer dollars by padding the good oleâ€™ boy pockets for meaningless projects and actually spent it on our infrastructure and our natural resources, Jacksonville could be a real contender in this stateâ€™s/nationâ€™s future. Peyton has turned out to be the worst Mayor for this city yet. Keep pissing the tax dollars away Mayor Peyton and maybe you can run the city deeper into ground than it is today!

Ocklawaha · December 23, 2008, 12:12:50 PM

Yeah, at first I was awed by the wonder hidden under our noses, then when I got up into the "enchanted forest" my mood changed. I'm proud our city at least feeds and offers the homeless a warm bed. Orlando simply makes it illegal to be homeless! But the sewer that this "garden of eden" has become is sickening.

We're it not for some LEGAL pain meds and a full bottle of Rebel Yell, I might not have made it out with my head screwed on....

Rather, I just paddled in and "FLOATED OUT!"

JaxNative68 · January 15, 2009, 01:15:46 PM

Did you happen to see Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon paddling down the creek?

Charles Hunter · January 15, 2009, 11:26:58 PM

Did you hear banjo music?

If so, paddle faster!!!!

Noone · August 10, 2011, 03:33:21 AM

Ock,Just saw this. Nice pics. That shopping cart in the top pick is outta there. Ennis may have a pic in his archives. We shared that moment. Would love to kayak or canoe an urban waterway destination Hogans Creek with you one of these days.

NavyGuyAN · September 06, 2011, 05:38:58 AM

QUESTION: Are you able to paddle all the way up to Shands starting from the St. Johns?...I only ask because right around where the creek goes under where Union and State Streets merge into the Matthews Expy it looks impassable or can u still take a kayak through there?
Thanks

Noone · September 06, 2011, 06:16:08 AM

No you can't. Me and another guy about a year ago put in at the old armory and paddled south down and actually went underneathUnion and its very dangerous. We turned around. there are some pipes and you may get past but its tidal and the potential to get trapped is real.

NavyGuyAN · September 06, 2011, 06:52:41 AM

okey dokey then...

north miami · September 07, 2011, 07:30:34 PM

Realization.

Duval's Downtown and adjoining fresh water waterway recreation current and potential beats Clay and St Johns County all over the place.

Visit

Ocklawaha · September 07, 2011, 08:43:29 PM

Quote from: north miami on September 07, 2011, 07:30:34 PM

Realization.

Duval's Downtown and adjoining fresh water waterway recreation current and potential beats Clay and St Johns County all over the place.

Visit

Many nearby creeks and rivers are full of wonder, like this rock spring. The next photo is the infamous 'suck' in the nearby Alapaha River...oh yeah, you can see right through to hades so don't slip!

Amazing as it might sound, being a die hard canoe buff... (no daddy, not that boy scout type, we're talking Kevlar Jensen with radical tumble-home http://www.clippercanoes.com/boat_specs.php?model_id=112 ) ...All local counties offer incredible exploring for us small boat people. In St. Johns County, Trout Creek, 6-Mile, Deep Creek, Tocoi Creek and dozens more are an endless adventure. Even more so when one considers this is plantation, Revolutionary, War of Yankee Aggression, and even WWII invasion territory. The two most southern land battles of the Revolution were fought at Inconsternation Creek (Nassau) and Durbin Creek (St. Johns), both loyalist victories I might add. I'm pretty sure Noone would agree with me when I say we've just got to see what's around the next bend, under that tree, up on that bluff...etc. Just a few miles south of my house is another creek where Confederate Sailors scuttled the famous racing yacht 'America.' At an old landing on McGirts Creek, are some of the ruins of the CSS St. Marys, but you have to know where they are and be willing to get wet to see them.

Did you know, and I'm not telling BTW, that there is a steam locomotive and most of a logging train in one of the local creeks? This besides the steam locomotive ruins from the Waycross and Southern Railway that can still be seen on Billy's Island in the Okefenokee.

As for Duval, I'd love to do an explore of Pottsburg Creek from Beach Blvd. to as far south of JTB as possible. Ditto for Julington as far north of Old St Augustine Road (there's a nice put in park there BTW) as possible. These two creeks actually both flow from a swamp located just north of the Avenues Mall. McGirts Creek and Trout River are two more that need to be pushed as far as possible. MJ even ran across a plan in some old documents where the city once proposed a canal that would connect McGirts and the Trout west of downtown, the whole idea back then 1930's(?) was to make us a 'boaters paradise'. A canoe/kayak club could follow up on the explorations with equipment to clear passages through snags which would make the waterways accessable to many more paddlers.

Noone · November 23, 2013, 05:42:35 AM

I support the USS Charles F. Adams at the Shipyards. A resolution of support was just given by the members at the 11/20/13 DIA Board meeting.

AH - American History

AH - Adams to Hogans

2013-384 Active piece of legislation before the Jacksonville city council right now. The applicants at the 6/25/13 Public Hearing were supportive of an amendment for 24/7 Public Access to Hogans Creek.

LPS- Let People Succeed.

Know Growth · November 23, 2013, 07:25:40 AM

Certainly Northeast Florida's creeks offer outstanding recreation.
The creation of Jennings State Forest/Upper Black creek, companion Ravines Conservation Area (and later, the call to re-route the Outer Beltway away from the Ravines) has been a signature Life Event.

As has the introduction to Downtown creeks, which certainly add to the diversity.That's a tall order!
Downtown waterways, though relatively small, negatively impacted and relatively obscure, really constitute a giant River & Community Advocacy message.

The emergence and popularity of small craft; canoe & kayak,affordable,easily stored, transported and launched has also contributed to the use, enjoyment and awareness of all area waterways.

Noone · December 16, 2013, 08:20:03 PM

Quote from: Noone on September 06, 2011, 06:16:08 AM
No you can't. Me and another guy about a year ago put in at the old armory and paddled south down and actually went underneathUnion and its very dangerous. We turned around. there are some pipes and you may get past but its tidal and the potential to get trapped is real.

2013-384 was withdrawn.
Visit Jacksonville!
DIA Board meeting 12/18/13 and the official hand out of money may be legislatively moving forward. Anybody care?
RAM dock only opened when RAM is open. Not good.
CRA/DIA in the USA is wrapping up.
Ben- JCCI we need to kayak Downtown before 2025
Who will be crowned the first MarshKeeper?
Still have an open contest if an MJ'er can show us a pic of the brand new Waterway signage that was never before JWC. I'll treat you to Chopstick Charley's and we can use Uber.

Tides are looking great. Anyone want to kayak and fish in our new highly restricted DIA zone under the brand new No Fishing signs that was never before Waterways?

I am Downtown and why you aren't.