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Two kayaks paddling through narrow mangrove tunnel with dense red mangrove roots arching overhead and reflections on dark water
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Florida Bay Backcountry — A Multi-Day Kayak Expedition Through the Last American Wilderness

The Wilderness Waterway runs 99 miles through Everglades National Park, from Everglades City to Flamingo. You sleep on elevated wooden platforms called chickees, eat what you carry, paddle through mangrove tunnels nobody's named, and share the water with the only American population where…
Panorama of Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge with mangrove keys scattered across shallow Gulf water under a wide Florida sky
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Ten Thousand Islands Kayak Expedition — Mangrove Tunnels, Oyster Bars, and the Wildest 3-Day Paddle in Florida

Thirty-five thousand acres of mangrove islands south of Marco. Launch at Chokoloskee, paddle out to Tiger Key or Pavilion, sleep on a beach where the only footprints are raccoons and your own. Three days, two nights, twenty-eight miles, five other boats if you're unlucky. The expedition planner.