Indian River Lagoon New Smyrna 2/20

A buddy from the gym loaned me his Al Merrick shaped SUP so Erica and I headed over to NSB to check out the mosquito lagoon paddle trail. We had to get inventive because someone stole my buddies paddle off his dock, so i borrowed a kayak paddle from a co-worker. This place was sweet! A perfect combination of well marked trail and mangrove tunnels to explore. We even saw a pack of dolphins. We got as close as 20 feet from them and watched them play for about 10 minutes before the boats on the open part of the Indian river ruined our alone time with flipper and his mates.

A little bit of a workout carrying the boards from the parking lot off of Saxon road in New Smyrna.


Launching Spot. In retrospect I guess we could have gone off the dock I stepped on some oyster shells down below.


The beautiful Erica and the well marked trail signs. I had my GPS watch on, but we started and stopped so often and i forgot to restart I have no idea of our total distance. I am guessing the trail was about 3 miles.


Went off trail and headed down a Mangrove tunnel got a little tight, but it's such a unique experience going down these. You feel like you are the only human that has ever been there.


Took me awhile to get used to SUP with the Kayak paddle, but I had a little fun playing around with different seated and kneeling strokes. Perfect cross train. I rocked out 5 miles the day before in PR 1:11:34 Averaging about 14 minute 5miles on a lake. I'm getting faster!


Cool Garica shot! A total accident


Another sweet shot. Erica's paddle stroke is getting impressive!


We finished the trail and started back into some tunnels. I will go back to this spot as soon as I get my fishing gear. I have never seen more fish than in this shoot.


Open water of the lagoon


Definitely recommend this place. It took us less than an hour to get there. We were on the water for 3:30 minutes. Guessing we did well over 6 lazy touring miles. We definitely earned some fine red wine for a lazy Saturday night.