On the eve of the official launch of ARK Paddleboards new Guy Harvey Limited Edition Stand Up Paddleboard, Guy Harvey Outpost Program Advisor Capt. Ned Stone visited the ARK headquarters in Pompano Beach, …
Win a trip to the Guy Harvey Outpost Grand Opening on St. Pete Beach, FL!
7 Aug 20127:24 PM
Win a trip to the Guy Harvey Outpost Grand Opening on St. Pete Beach, FL! The trip package includes
- Two round trip tickets to Tampa International Airport, 30 minutes from Guy Harvey Outpost, a TradeWinds Beach Resort.
- 4 Day /3 Night stay at Guy Harvey Outpost, a TradeWinds Beach Resort in a spacious Gulf Front Suite with views of the Gulf of Mexico and the white sand beaches of St. Pete Beach.
- 36″ giclee print signed by Guy Harvey personally!
- Exclusive invitation to our Grand Opening event on September 12th to include Cocktail Reception, Dinner, Entertainment, and a Meet & Greet with Guy Harvey himself.
Visit the TradeWinds Island Resort Facebook Page for details and registration!
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![](mailto:?subject=Congratulations Bouncer!&body=Capt. Bouncer Smith inducted into IGFA Legendary Captains & Crew!
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Infectious enthusiasm could easily be the catch phrase for fishing on <a title="Bouncer's Dusky" href="http://www.captbouncer.com/">Bouncer's Dusky</a>. For a big and energetic guy Bouncer always manages to convey the best of humanity. He is known for always treating people with kindness and dignity. On top of that he is a fabulous fisherman. His clients have caught a long list of World Record fish. He is just as proud of all the families who fish with him and all the kids who can say they caught their "First ________ (fish in the blank)" fishing with Bouncer.
Congratulations Bouncer on an honor well deserved! Check out Fishing with Bouncer on the web at: <a title="www.captbouncer.com" href="http://www.captbouncer.com/charter.htm">http://www.captbouncer.com/charter.htm</a> https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/congratulations-bouncer/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=A Paddle Trip Even Lewis & Clark Would Have Skipped&body=<img class=" size-medium wp-image-3016 alignleft" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/paddle.jpg?w=300" alt="paddle" width="300" height="267" />By Sue Cocking, Guy Harvey Outpost staff writer
Paddling the marshy interior of Everglades National Park makes you feel like you are the first one ever to explore the region. You won't see any humans other than your companions. You won't encounter much trash, save for a stray deflated Mylar balloon here and there. The only mechanical sounds you'll hear come from the occasional small airplane overhead. You come to truly appreciate the exquisite natural beauty of this vast 1.5-million-acre wilderness known as the "River of Grass". And you will really, really wish that it was more river and less grass--especially after 22 miles of slogging in a single day.
A group of about 20 men and women whose names will be withheld to protect the uncertain status of their mental health embarked on Halloween on what was supposed to be a day-long exploration of Taylor Slough extending from the park's Homestead entrance southwest to Nine Mile Pond near Flamingo. The trip was the brainchild of a veteran local Everglades explorer we'll call "Tom" who leads these out-of-the-way paddling adventures annually, dubbed "Invitationals". "Tom" never follows the trails on park brochures, instead mapping out his routes using Google Maps and GPS.
Setting out before dawn in canoes and kayaks from an airboat trail that used to be the Ingraham Highway pre-dating the park's 1947 establishment, the group pushed, pulled, poled and paddled for hours through thickets of spikerush, sawgrass and periphyton -- a spongy algae variously described as elephant snot or monkey puke. It actually smells pretty good, kind of like PineSol. But it is no fun to navigate, especially when your paddle blades catapult thick wads of it onto you and your boat. Unseasonably warm temperatures and very little breeze added to the discomfort.
The going was so slow through the shallow water and dense grass that the group hadn't covered even half the distance by the time we stopped for lunch in a small patch of shade beside a tree island.
While everyone was breaking out their water bottles and lunchboxes, one paddler suddenly flipped upside down in his kayak. At first, I thought he'd been startled by a snake or something. But when he didn't crawl out from under the kayak right away, several people nearby leapt from their boats, pulled him out of the water and righted his boat. He was conscious, but pale and dazed.
One of his rescuers, fortunately, was a physician who checked him out, pronounced a touch of heat exhaustion, and said he would be fine after taking in electrolyte fluids. But he was too run down to paddle much, so he took my spot in the bow of Tom's canoe and I took over the kayak.
I would like to say the trip became easier, but only in small increments. Water levels rose a bit higher as we neared Craighead's Pond-- site of a raised platform and defunct science experiment. But after a couple more miles, I was growing tired from the drag of the grass and the constant shipping of slimy algae into the kayak.
To no one's surprise, the sun set and the sky grew dark well before we entered the mangrove labyrinth of Nine Mile Pond. Nearly everyone had headlamps or flashlights and GPS units that tracked true, so there was little chance of getting lost. But of course, hordes of mosquitoes and gnats appeared as soon as the light faded, making an uncomfortable journey even worse. At least the air cooled off.
But with about five miles yet to go, I was pretty exhausted. At our next rest stop in the dark, I traded the kayak to a young woman triathlete in exchange for her seat in her uncle's canoe. Paddling in the bow with him in the stern felt like a spa day compared to mushing in the kayak.
With no further misadventures, the entire group somehow arrived safely at the Nine Mile Pond parking lot about 8:45 p.m.-- a distance of 22 miles in 13 1/2 hours.
As we made landfall, my canoe partner began whistling the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's "Messiah"-- wrong holiday, but an entirely appropriate anthem under the circumstances.
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Sue Cocking chronicles the Guy Harvey Outpost travel and adventure experience in regular blog posts on GuyHarveyOutpostNews.com/. For 21 years, Cocking covered the full spectrum of outdoors adventure opportunities in South Florida and beyond for the Miami Herald, including fishing, diving, hunting, paddling camping, sailing and powerboat racing. She is a certified scuba diver and holder of an IGFA women's world fly fishing record for a 29-pound permit.
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![](mailto:?subject=Venezuela Bans Shark Finning, Establishes Shark Sanctuary&body=<a href="http://guyharvey.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/img_1501.jpg"><img title="Tiger shark - Photo courtesy of Steve Valetta" src="http://guyharvey.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/img_1501.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="300" /></a>
NOTE: This post was excerpted from an article by Douglas Main on <a title="OAP.com" href="http://www.ouramazingplanet.com" target="_blank">OurAmazingPlanet</a>. Click <a title="Venezuela Bans Shark Finning, Establishes Shark Sanctuary" href="http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/3072-venezuela-bans-shark-finning.html" target="_blank">here</a> to read the full article.
Some much-needed good news for sharks has come from Venezuela this week: The South American country announced it is banning shark finning in its waters and has established a new shark sanctuary.
The country became the last in the Americas to outlaw the practice of cutting off the fins of live sharks and tossing the animals back into the ocean to slowly die.
The country also has created a sanctuary where several important shark species breed, outlawing commercial shark fishing there. The sanctuary consists of 1,440 square miles (3,730 square kilometers) of the Caribbean Sea surrounding the Los Roques Archipelago, a popular tourist destination. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/venezuela-bans-shark-finning-establishes-shark-sanctuary/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=Guy Harvey Outpost Team Joins Blue Water Babes to Fish for a Cure&body=<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/10686775_932857686730957_3348169204012687339_n.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2931 alignleft" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/10686775_932857686730957_3348169204012687339_n.jpg?w=300" alt="10686775_932857686730957_3348169204012687339_n" width="300" height="256" /></a>By Sue Cocking, Guy Harvey Outpost staff writer
scocking@guyharveyoutpost.com
Catch fish, eat great food, sip cocktails and maybe win prizes for a worthy cause in the Bluewater Babes Fish for a Cure Tournament Oct. 2-3 out of Sailfish Marina on Singer Island in Palm Beach County.
The tournament awards prizes for weighing the heaviest pelagics (kingfish, dolphin and wahoo); heaviest single meat fish (snapper, grouper, cobia or blackfin tuna); and releasing billfish (blue marlin, white marlin and sailfish).
Only women may be anglers, but male captains and crew are allowed.
Fish for a Cure, founded in 2009, is Palm Beach County's first all-female contest dedicated to raising money for local breast and ovarian cancer patients who are in financial need. Besides fishing, the event includes cocktail and costume contests and a boat-decorating contest. A captains' meeting and kickoff party will be held Oct. 2, followed by fishing and the final awards ceremony Oct. 3.
Guy Harvey Outpost's captain Cliff Jensen and his team are sponsoring a Loggerhead Marina boat for the tournament. Guy Harvey Outpost has also donated a prize of a three-night stay at Old Bahama Bay Resort & Yacht Harbor on West End, Grand Bahama Island, along with dockage.
For more information, go to <a href="http://fishforacure.com/">http://fishforacure.com</a>.
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Sue Cocking chronicles the Guy Harvey Outpost travel and adventure experience in regular blog posts on GuyHarveyOutpostNews.com/. For 21 years, Cocking covered the full spectrum of outdoor adventure opportunities in South Florida and beyond for the Miami Herald, including fishing, diving, hunting, paddling, camping, sailing and powerboat racing. She is a certified scuba diver and holder of an IGFA women's world fly fishing record for a 29-pound permit. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/guy-harvey-outpost-team-joins-blue-water-babes-to-fish-for-a-cure/){kind=link}
![](mailto:?subject=Guy Harvey Outpost’s Iguana Crossing Hotel Wins TripAdvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Award AGAIN!&body=<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/tripadvisor-travelers-choice-award-2014.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2113" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/tripadvisor-travelers-choice-award-2014.png" alt="TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Award 2014" width="276" height="260" /></a><a title="Iguana Crossing" href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/destinations/beyond/isabela-island/property-overview.html">Iguana Crossing</a> has earned back to back Traveler's Choice Awards from TripAdvisor. The top hotel on Isabela Island and ranked second in the Galapagos. Two hundred and forty-two reviewers rated the fourteen room boutique hotel. Two-hundred and twenty-six of the reviewing guests rated this Guy Harvey Outpost Expedition Lodge either Excellent (189) or Very Good (37).
In addition to all the terrific land based adventures on Isabela. There is excellent diving, snorkeling and surfing in the Galapagos and Isabela has some of the very best.
Call now for our end of Summer Special available August 13 and September 30, 2014. reservations@guyharveyoutpost.com or 800-513-5257. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/guy-harvey-outposts-iguana-crossing-hotel-wins-tripadvisors-travelers-choice-award-again/){kind=link}
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