5/6/2019, Holmes Creek: Cotton Landing to Vernon

With: David Bernard, Chris Oberlin
 
We took David's truck and my van, and dropped Joan off at the airport again, then drove north on FL-79 to set shuttle. We put in at a nice boat-launch at the end of an obscure dirt road off FL-277.

About a mile downstream, after having had the river completely to ourselves, we paddled up a side creek to the beautiful clear Cypress Spring, where we watched a number of other people swimming and splashing in the springwater.

We took out at Vernon Park, a somewhat dilapidated -- possibly hurricane damaged -- county park just north of the FL-79 bridge over the creek. We ate dinner at a nearby mom'n'pop burger joint named Jacket's Nest, which caters to, and is decorated with memorabilia and photos of, the Washington County Yellowjackets highschool teams.
 
1. Holmes Creek put-in
2. David and Chris at the Holmes Creek put-in
3. Holmes Creek
4. Chris at Cypress Spring, feeding into Holmes Creek
5. David at Cypress Spring, feeding into Holmes Creek
6. Holmes Creek
7. David on Holmes Creek
8. Holmes Creek
9. Lunch on Holmes Creek: David and Chris
10. The view from our lunch stop on Holmes Creek
11. David on Holmes Creek
12. Holmes Creek
13. Chris on Holmes Creek
14. Chris on Holmes Creek