Adventure Outpost
kayaking and canoeing in FloridaCanoe and Kayak trips by Adventure Outpost High Springs, FL
Based in the heart of North Florida’s famous “Spring Country,” Adventure Outpost offers guided kayak and canoe tours on over 60 waterways throughout the region. Each week we lead 3 – 4 tours on some of the rivers, spring runs, lakes and coastal paddles on our tour list. Check the calendar for tours and dates.
Guided Tours
We do 3 – 4 tours every week on 70+ Florida rivers. For a calendar and descriptions, go to the calendar page.
We no longer do rentals and shuttling for unguided river trips.
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- Adventure Outpost Tours (35)
- ancient Indian trail (5)
- Archaeology (43)
- Bald eagle nesting (17)
- Bartram (11)
- Birding (42)
- Bison (1)
- black bears (5)
- blackwater river (7)
- Blue Springs (6)
- Boat sales (2)
- Canaveral National Seashore (1)
- canoeing on Newnans Lake (2)
- Civil War History (8)
- Civil War site (3)
- Coastal hammock (9)
- Cross Creek (1)
- De Soto exploration (14)
- dolphins (11)
- Fall foliage (1)
- floating islands (3)
- Florida history (45)
- fresh water marsh (20)
- Guided Tours (42)
- Hernando de Soto (11)
- Hiking (6)
- Hydric hammock (2)
- Indian mounds (19)
- Interesting plants (47)
- island hopping (6)
- Karst topography (6)
- kayaking in springs (14)
- kayaking on Newnans Lake (2)
- lake (1)
- Manatee encounters (8)
- Manatee Tours (6)
- manatees (11)
- marine life (9)
- Maritime forest (8)
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (5)
- Mesic forest (11)
- monkey (3)
- National Park (11)
- National Wildlife Refuge (1)
- North Florida (40)
- old ferry crossing (5)
- open water (5)
- paddling Newnans Lake (2)
- Plant lore (47)
- Rentals (46)
- River (37)
- river ford (4)
- river otters (29)
- Salt marshes (9)
- Seminole War history (23)
- Seminoles (3)
- Shell midden (10)
- Shuttle available (27)
- Slogging (1)
- Spanish Cattle Ranch (1)
- Spanish Mission history (8)
- Spanish Mission site (3)
- spring (7)
- Spring hopping (8)
- spring run (11)
- Springs (20)
- State Park (24)
- steamboat era history (8)
- Steamboat history (6)
- steamboat landing (7)
- sturgeon watching (1)
- swamp exploration (18)
- Timucua Indians (23)
- turtles (10)
- Uncategorized (4)
- Unguided trips (5)
- Wild Horses (1)
- Wildlife refuge (28)
- wildlife watching (41)
- William Bartram (11)
- X-stream adventure (2)
Tags
- Adventure Outpost
- Adventure Outpost tours
- Alapaha
- all day
- Allen Mill Pond
- Allen Spring
- Alligator Rise
- alligators
- Alligator Swallet
- Amelia Island
- American lotus
- amphiuma
- Anastasia
- Anastasia Island
- Anderson Landing
- anhinga
- anhinga rookery
- anhingas
- ante-bellum
- Apalachee
- Apalachee Indians
- apple snails
- archaeology
- Archaic Indians
- Archaic period culture
- arrow heads
- artesian spring
- artifacts
- Audubon
- baby alligators
- back crowned night herons
- bald cypress
- bald cypress trees
- bald eagle nests
- bald eagles
- barred owl
- barred owls
- Barrier islands
- Bartram
- Bartrams
- Bartrams Florida plantation
- Battle Lagoon
- Bay of Horses
- Bear Creek
- bears
- beaver
- beavers
- Bellamy Cave System
- Bellamy Road
- Big Buck Camp
- birding
- black-crowned night heron
- black-crowned night herons
- black and white warbler
- black and white warblers
- Black Creek
- Black Creek Ravines
- black gum
- Black gum tree
- black mangrove
- blackwater river
- bladderwort
- blockade runners
- blue crab festival
- blue crabs
- Blue Hole Spring
- Blue Run
- Blue Spring
- Blue Springs
- Blue Spring State Park
- botany
- British Period of Florida
- C.B.Moore
- Camps Canal
- Canaveral National Seashore
- canoeing Bear Creek
- Canoeing Black Creek
- canoeing Hontoon Island
- canoeing Ichetucknee
- canoeing ocklawaha
- canoeing Ocklawaha River
- canoeing on Ichetucknee
- canoeing with manatee
- canoeing with manatees
- Carnegie
- carniverous plants
- Castillo San Marcos
- cattail marsh
- Cedar Key National Wildlife Refuge
- cedar trees
- Chacala
- Channeled apple snails
- Charles Ferry
- Charles Spring
- Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge
- Chief Lucas Menendaz
- Civil War
- Civil War site
- Clarence Moore
- Co. Tucker
- coastal habitat
- coastal hammock
- Coe Hadjo
- Coffee Spring
- Columbia Spring
- Columbus
- Columbus (town site)
- conquistadores
- coot
- cooters
- cormorant
- cormorant rookery
- cormorants
- Cove of the Withlacoochee
- Cowkeeper
- Crack Spring
- Cross Creek
- Cross Florida Barge Canal
- Crystal River
- Crystal River mounds
- Crystal River State Archaeological Site
- Crystal River stellae
- Crystal River temple mounds
- Cumberland Island National Seashore
- Cuscowilla
- dangerous shoals
- Daniel Newnan
- Darby Spring
- Davenport
- Davenport Landing
- Davenport Mound
- David Levy
- David Levy Yulee
- deadhead logging
- Dead River
- Deep Creek
- deer
- De Soto
- De Soto exploration
- De Soto Trail
- Devils Ear Spring
- Devils Eye Spring
- Dogwood Spring
- dolphins
- double crested cormorant
- Drew Mansion
- duck
- ducks
- dugout canoes
- Dunes
- Dungeness
- eagles
- easy/beginner
- easy for children
- edible plants
- edible plant tours
- egrets
- Eldora
- elimia snails
- Eureka
- exploring estuaries
- exploring lagoons
- exploring mangroves
- false dragonhead
- FDE
- Fernandina Beach
- ferns
- fiddler crabs
- Fillyaw grave
- FL
- floating islands
- Florida's mission era
- Florida archaeology
- Florida buckeye
- Florida Defenders of the Environment
- Florida history
- Florida Indians
- Florida pirates
- Florida shipwrecks
- FMNP
- fossils
- Franciscan mission
- Franciscan missions
- Frank Chapman
- fresh water marsh
- freshwater springs
- fresh water turtles
- freshwater turtles
- frigate birds
- Ft. Jennings
- Ft. Mose
- Ft. San Marcos de Apalachee
- geology
- Georgia
- Georgia kayaking
- Georgia kayak tours
- Georgia seas islands
- Ghigua
- giant leather fern
- Gilchrist Blue Spring
- Ginnie Spring
- Ginnie Springs
- glass-bottom boats
- golden club
- Gores Landing
- great blue heron
- great blue herons
- grebe
- grebes
- Greyfield Inn
- Guana Dam
- Guana River
- guided paddle tour on Ichetucknee
- guided tour on Ichetucknee
- Gum Springs
- hackberry
- Hastings
- Hatchet Creek
- hawthorn trees
- Hernando Desoto
- Hernando de Soto
- heron
- heron rookery
- herons
- historic
- history tours
- honey bees
- Hontoon Island
- Hontoon Island SP
- Hontoon Island State Park
- Hontoon Mound
- Hontoon owl
- Hornsby Spring
- horseshoe crabs
- Hunter Spring
- Hunter Spring Park
- hyacinth drift
- Ichetucknee Spring
- Indian burial mound
- Indian mound
- Indian mounds
- indigo plantations
- Indina village
- interesting geology
- interesting marine life
- Interesting plants
- intermediate skill level
- Inverness
- island-hopping
- Island apple snails
- ivory billed woodpecker
- John Bartram
- John Muir
- Jonathan Dickinson
- Jug Spring
- July Springs
- Jumper
- Juniper Run
- karst togography
- kayaking
- kayaking Bear Creek
- kayaking Black Creek
- kayaking Crystal River
- kayaking Cumberland Island
- Kayaking Georgia sea islands
- kayaking Gum Slough
- kayaking Hontoon Island
- kayaking Ichetucknee
- kayaking in mangroves
- kayaking juniper run
- kayaking ocklawaha River
- kayaking on Chassahowitzka
- kayaking on Deep Creek
- kayaking on Ichetucknee
- kayaking Withlacoochee
- kayaking with manatee
- kayaking with manatees
- kayak rentals on Ichetucknee
- kayak tours at Hontoon Island
- kayak tours of Deep Creek
- kayak tours on Bear Creek
- kayak tours on Chassahowitzka
- Kayak tours on Gum Slough
- kayak tours on Homosassa
- kayak tours on Ichetucknee
- kayak tours on Withlacoochee
- kayak tour with manatee
- Kelly Park
- king birds
- King Payne
- Kings Bay
- Kings Landing
- King Spring
- Kirkpatrick Dam
- kite
- kites
- La Chua Ranch
- La Chua Trail
- Lafayette Blue Spring
- Lake Panasofkee
- Lars Andersen tours
- Lars Anderson tours
- Lily Spring
- limestone
- limpkin
- limpkins
- little blue herons
- Little Blue Spring
- Little Dove
- loons
- lots of nature
- Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge
- Madison Blue Spring
- Manatee encounters
- manatees
- Manatee swim tours
- manatee tour
- Manatee Tours
- mangrove crabs
- mangroves
- mangrove snapper
- maritime forest
- Marjorie Carr
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park
- Marsh Bend Park
- mastodons
- mayhaw
- Mayo
- mermaids
- Mesic forest
- Middleburg
- Missino San Martin
- Mission San Juan de Guacara
- Mission San Martin
- Mission Spring
- Missisippi kite
- Missisippi kites
- Mississippi Kite
- monarch butterflies
- monarch butterfly migration festival
- monkeys
- moonshine
- moorhens
- Naked Ed
- Naked Spring
- Narvaez
- Native people
- nesting birds
- nesting moorhens
- never-wet
- Newnans Battle
- Newnans Lake
- Newnans Lake dugout canoe
- New Smyrna
- Nicks Shoal
- night heron
- night herons
- North River
- Nyssa sylvatica
- Ocala
- Ocala limestone
- Ocali
- Ocali Indians
- Ocklawaha
- Ocklawaha River
- Oklavueha Band of Seminoles
- ornithologist William Brewster
- Orontium
- Osceola
- osprey
- ospreys
- otter
- Otter Camp
- otters
- Outlet River
- owl effigy
- owl totme pole
- paddle tour on Homosassa
- Paddle tours around Hontoon Island
- paddle tours on Bear Creek
- paddle tours on Chassahowitzka
- paddle tours on Crystal River
- paddle tours on Gum Slough
- paddling among mangroves
- paddling Crystal River
- paddling Deep Creek
- paddling Ichetucknee
- paddling in spring
- paddling in springs
- Paddling Jennings State Forest
- paddling juniper run
- paddling Ocklawaha
- paddling on Bear Creek
- paddling Withlacoochee
- paddling with manatee
- Paddling with manatees
- padling Ocklawaha Ribver
- Palm Point
- Panasofkee
- Panfilo de Narvaez
- Patsy Andersen
- Paynes Prairie
- Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park
- Paynes Prairie State Preserve
- pelicans
- Peninsula cooter
- phoebe
- phoebes
- phosphate boom town
- Physostegia
- pickerelweed
- pied-billed grebes
- pied billed grebe
- pileated woodpecker
- pileated woodpeckers
- pirates
- plantation era
- plant lore
- Plum Orchard
- Poe Spring
- Poe Springs
- Prairie Creek
- prothonotary warbler
- prothonotary warblers
- Rebecca Charles
- red bellied turtle
- red buckeye
- red mangrove
- red shoudered hawks
- red shouldered hawk
- red shouldered hawks
- remote
- reservoir
- Rhesus macaques
- river otter
- river otters
- River Rise
- rock outcrops
- Rodman Dam
- Rodman Reservoir
- Rollestown
- rope swings
- roseate spoonbills
- royal fern
- royal ferns
- Rubin Charles
- Rum Island spring
- Rum Island Springs
- salt marshes
- Salt Run
- sand dunes
- Santa Fe de Toloca
- Santa Fe River
- sawgrass
- scenic views
- scrub habitat
- Sea Camp
- sea oats
- sea squirts
- sea turtles
- secluded
- Second Seminole War
- Seloy
- Seminole Indians
- Seminoles
- Seminole War
- shell midden
- shell mound
- shipwrecks
- ship wrecks
- sliders
- sliding turtles
- slogging
- snake bird
- snakes
- snapping turtles
- snowy egret
- snowy egrets
- Spanish mission
- Spanish missions
- Spanish Mission Trail
- spatter dock
- spatterdock
- spear points
- spring
- spring hopping
- springs
- St. Augustine
- St. Augustine paddling
- St. Johns River
- St. Marks
- St. Marks NWR
- St. Marys
- St. Marys River
- State Park
- steamboat era
- Steamboating era
- Steamboat landing
- steamboat Madison
- Steamboats
- Steinhatchee Falls
- Steinhatchee River
- Stetson
- strenuous
- sturgeon
- sturgeon watching
- Sugar mill
- sunsets
- Suwannacoochee
- Suwannee cooter
- Suwannee Cooters
- Suwannee River
- Suwannee River Wilderness Trail
- swallow tailed kite
- swallow tailed kites
- swamp exploration
- swamp paddling
- swamp wxploration
- tarpon
- Tarzan movies
- The n\Crack
- The Yearling
- Three Sisters Springs
- Thursby House
- Timucua
- Timucua Indians
- Tolomato
- Tomoka River
- Town of Suwannee
- Treehouse Spring
- Tsala Apopka
- tube worms
- tupelo
- Turners Fish Camp
- Turpentine Creek
- turpentine industry
- turtles
- two-toed amphiuma
- vireos
- vultures
- warblers
- water hyacinths
- Weeki Wachee
- Wekiva River
- Wekiva Springs
- Wekiwa Spring
- white-tailed deer
- white ibis
- whooping cranes
- wild edible plants
- wild edible plant tours
- wild hogs
- wild horses
- wildlife
- wild oranges
- William Bartram
- William Camp
- Withlacoochee
- Withlacoochee River
- wodd storks
- wood duck
- wood ducks
- wood stork rookery
- x-stream exploration
- Yamassee
- Yamassee Indians
- yello-crowned night heron
- yellow-billed cuckoo
- yellow-billed cuckoos
- yellow-crowned night heron
- yellow crowned night herons
- yelow crowned night herons
- Yulee
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