Dec 2016 Canaveral National Seashore Park


Click above to watch the photo slide show of our brutal trek of the Canaveral National Seashore Park.

2016 was a very weird year for the Brotherhood.  We had planned on taking a big stretch and 5 of us were going to Bolivia in September.  The wheels fell off when in late May our leader had a massive heart attack.  Bolivia was now off the table.  The year was getting away from us and we hated the thought of a blank for the calendar.

We had long wanted to hike the nearby Canaveral National Seashore Park.  Since the trip was compromised anyway, we figured we would invite the wives.  They dropped us off at the southern point of the park at Playlinda near the town of Titusville.  The plan was for us to hike north for about 12 miles and they would meet us at the northern end of the Park just south of New Smyrna Beach.  We would all have a lovey dinner afterwards and stay overnight at a beach house.  The plan sounded like the proverbial “walk in the park”  Unfortunately, it was anything but that.

First of all, Hurricane Matthew had come through 2 months earlier and had totally trashed the beach.  Rubbish washed up from the beach was strewn everywhere.  Second, the storm made the Apollo Trail impassable for the first 6 miles forcing us to walk on the steep beach in brutally soft sand.  What we thought was going to be an easy 3 hours, turned out to be a extremely difficult 6-hour slog.  We finish just as darkness set in.

The end was quite joyful however.  In addition to having a greeting party meet us a the finish line with a cooler of beer and snacks, we got to watch a super cool Atlas rocket launch from the Kennedy Space Center.

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