Refuge Boat Trip to the Old Wall Creek Camp 2024
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2024
- On this trip to the Refuge I visited the site of the old Wall Creek Hunting Camp that sits right on the edge of the coastal timber here on the Florida Nature Coast.....Getting there by boat is the only access to this part of the Chassahowitzka NWR!! My drone Flight Air Bayport 40 in my Drone Playlist shows this area in a flyover if you're interested in this specific area!!
very nice Wes. I'm an older timer now, and these videos exploring old Florida are just as interesting as the fishing part. please keep em coming.
Thanks Richard.....LOL....I know the feeling!! Growing up in Virginia and making the transition to Florida allowed me to experience a completely different outdoors lifestyle and when I moved here to Hernando County I found my paradise on the Florida Nature Coast here in Bayport......Have a great weekend!!😎
A beautiful boat trip in the refuge with the lovely calm water. I enjoyed in full to the end. Thank you, my friend.
Thanks Dave!! The Refuge is my home away from home ....An extremely fascinating experience with every trip......I did a drone flyover years ago and on my playlist it's Air Bayport 40 if you're interested!!
Nothing lasts. Eventually the earth reclaims it all. You got deep in there.
Thanks Dug......This is where I got the chance to hone my navigation ability with the use of an airboat to gain the base knowledge that has allowed me to enjoy my time in the Refuge....If you are interested my Drone playlist Air Bayport 40 is a flyover of this area from 7 years ago.....Sea Ya!!😎
Very interesting video my friend 🌹 👍
Thanks Naf EX!! Nothing like having a wilderness to roam around in here on the Florida Gulf Coast!!
Very beautiful and very interesting. Thanks
Thanks J !! This is where I had the opportunity to start my journey of Xploration in the wildlife refuge.....It has since paid me back countless times.....Have a great weekend!!
This was nice Wes. The way Florida should be.
Thanks Rob!! This is really how I got my start in the Refuge with the help of an airboat I gained a wealth of knowledge of this area!! My drone playlist flight Air Bayport 40 documents this area if interested.....Se Ya!!
Thanks John!!.....It's a way of life when any structure is built low to the ground....I've seen several hunting camp buildings destroyed because of Hurricanes and Tropical Storms within 15 miles of my house!! I've suffered 2 water events in 30 years.....In 1993 the No-Name storm/Storm of the Century put 2 feet of water in my house.....It took me over a year getting it back in shape and the No Name was a winter storm not a hurricane and then last September Hurricane Idalia got the carpet wet and it took me a month to get back in after drying the T&G floors and replacing the carpet.....Living here on the Gulf Coast is great until it's not because of high water!!😎
have a great weekend my friend
Pretty neat back there . I bet you got some good shots flying over with the drone . Thanks for giving us a tour Wes . Have a good weekend
Thanks Ryan!! There is so much to see back there and I've walked all over the place in the Refuge and visited a bunch of islands looking for clues from the past.....If you're interested my drone playlist has Air Bayport 40 which is my drone flight over this area.....Have a great weekend!!
Thanks for the tour!
Thanks Nathan!! There's a lot to see once you transition from the mangroves to the chord grass when you get to the tree line!!
nice ride...Peaceful
Ken Thanks!! There is absolutely nothing out here for miles!! It's 3 miles West to the Gulf and 8 miles thru the swamp to US 19 which is the main artery here in Hernando County ....Plus going either North or South from where I'm at is about 8 miles in either direction....This Federal Refuge will be here long after I'm gone!! If you're interested I run trail cams in the Refuge and my drone catalog has a flight about 7 years ago.....Air Bayport 40 Flight over Wall Creek Camp.....Enjoy your weekend!!
Absolutely beautiful back in there.🍻
NCIF.....Thanks!! You know every time I head north to the Refuge I know that I made the right decision to live in this area.....Have a great week!!
@WesLovelace can't imagine you ever second guessing yourself on that decision.
That’s some pretty cool history for this area. It sure is pretty back in there!!
TOTWF....Thanks!! There aren't many of the creeks along the Nature Coast in the Refuge that originate from springs found in the interior.....There is a lot of history that dates all the way back before the 20th Century.....This is a spectacular area here on the Central Florida Gulf Coast!!
That looks like it might be a "spend the might until the next tide" kind of place. Really neat place. It hard to believe it's been that long since no name.
Thanks Martin!! The cam was as rough as it comes....I don't remember anyone saying a gator walked in the door.....LOL!! I've got pics of me on the dock with Sheeps, Drum, Specks and Reds back when I still had brown hair.....LOL!! If you're interested my Drone playlist has an aerial.....Air Bayport 40 that I flew 7 years ago over the still standing building.....Sea Ya!!
Pretty damn cool , more of that knowledge would be great Wes ! Keep ‘em coming 🫡
Thanks Greg!! Well I have a lot of knowledge from my college days about the Sawmill town of Centralia.....For instance they harvested huge Longleaf Pine. Cypress and Cedar out almost a 1/4 mile from my location....I still see remnants of the exposed stumps and root systems and there are still islands that have large Longleaf Pines still standing.....The Gulf has made numerous changes to the Refuge and at the turn of the 20th Century what's sawgrass and islands now was solid land back then....This is a fascinating area to me and I've enjoyed every minute of analyzing everything I see.....Sea Ya!!
Greg if you're interested in seeing this area ....My Drone playlist Air Bayport 40 is a flight over this area......I've flown all over this Refuge!!
Very interesting, too bad people lost their homes.
You really got way back in there. You almost need a pair a waders to jump out and go exploring.
Thanks Rande!! I see enough Cottonmouths and Gators to know I might not make it out of the swamp alive....But if you bring yours I'll be happy to let you Xplore.....LOL!!
Way cool Wes I remember hunting out there in early 80s east of there.
DMP.....Thanks!! I got introduced to fishing in the Chassahowitzka NWR by having access to an Airboat and those early trips allowed me to gain a base map of the entire area that I now have at my disposal 30 years later!!
My drone playlist....Air Bayport 40 is a flyover of this area when the house was still standing!!
@@WesLovelace a plane crashed out there today I just saw
@@dronemafiaproduction. I haven't heard anything yet!!
That's awesome Wes. I really appreciate you covering that both visually and historically. I've wanted to venture there but after the mangroves transition to marsh grass, I can only make it about halfway to the coastal zone in my Maverick. It's already head-on-a-swivel territory when fishing it.
As a fisherman who hyper focuses on stealth, I generally loathe airboats, but I'd love to rent one for the weekend just to explore that "last mile" up to land.
Thanks LSJ!! I was in there on a big tide and I had to run in tilt drive until I got thru all the switch backs!! I've got some pics of Sheeps, Drum, Reds and Trout on the dock.....Being able to get my start on an air boat made all the difference in my future!!
It is so beautiful back in there. Wish we had a area like that around here. I will have a video like this one here in a couple of weeks one of the reason why you seen the kayak in my last my video.
I will be kayaking the Sebastian River
I know you're down near Ft. Pierce but the area in the IRL is a pretty nice place to hang out.....I use to keep my big boat in T-Ville and fish offshore of the Cape!! Short of going to the Glades this area is about 160 sq. miles that has a Wilderness Designation and about 40 sq. miles of fishable water that I'm familiar with and have access without towing the boat to another location....I've been enjoying the knowledge that's accumulated over many years of Xploration!!
Interesting place. Nice and secluded. Any fresh water back there?
Thanks Wayn!! Anytime you can get this far inside the tree/timberline you're in an outflow from a Spring inside the Wildlife Refuge.....The coastal storms have really made most of these places hard to get to because of all the downed trees and there are too many gators back to go sloggin' around the coast.....LOL!! If you're interested my Drone Playlist.....Air Bayport 40 is a flyover launched from the deck of my boat......Enjoy your weekend!!
Thanks for the tour Wes. I have been pretty close to the end in my jet but didn’t proceed up to look for the spring. I had no idea about the camp being there or the history! I’ll have to go all the way up there this summer! I didn’t understand the comment about not being able to take airboats up there anymore. Are they banned in that part of the Refuge?
Thanks Mark!! Air Boats are legal!! Years ago you could enter the Refuge from the coastline from any vessel and hunt or fish and not have law enforcement ding you which by the way was almost non-existent back then......Today you are suppose to enter the Refuge from a marked entry such as the Centralia check point on US 19.....This put's better control of Ingress and Egress at the hands of the State of Florida and FWC and to help control illegal activity.
Mark my Drone Flights playlist Air Bayport 40 is a fly over of this area when the house was still standing!!
Very interesting! Can you get there by land or did all that material have to be brought in by boat?
Did I catch that correctly: airboats are not allowed in the refuge?
Thanks Marc!! Back in the day you got to the camp mostly by airboat and from the camp walking going east to hunt.....Nothing has changed as far as airboats are concerned but you can't come from the Gulf side to hunt in the Refuge.....There is one main entrance off US 19 in Hernando County and the entrance is monitored and you also pay a $5 fee and register your vehicle.....FWC is the law enforcement in the Federal Refuge..... and they heavily patrol this area from land and from the Gulf!! All the material came from Bayport by boat!! Phone/GPS just don't work in the Refuge.....If you could do a flyover you could get a bearing but a compass is a poor way to navigate this place.....There have been people get lost in there....Some in last few months!!
@@WesLovelaceI def don’t want to impose but if you got room for Carson to fish and me to film, I’d love to collab with you next month and see what you see with my own eyes 👀
Info to get ahold of me in my channel description. If I post any c0nt@ct info here you know who will make it disappear
@@fishing4dinner Yep it works for me.....All we need is big water....Sounds like a plan.....You're about 2 1/2 hours from the shack....😎
Marc I really didn't think this trip thru with the 3rd person which I've never attempted. At 15'-3" the boat is made for 2 people and I'm going to be overweight and I need to be able to freely navigate utilizing 1/2 of the rear deck. From a safety standpoint, weight distribution and the severity of the area I'm just not comfortable trying to attempt this trip under these conditions.....Sorry I should have given my answer more consideration before jumping to a snap decision.
@@WesLovelace all good! I completely understand
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JGF.....Thanks!! Early access to an airboat and later with my tunnel hull allowed me to get a handle of over 50 sq. miles of Federal Refuge and it's still producing some great results 30 years later.....Enjoy your weekend!!