Exploring Little And Shark Rivers (between Cape Sable the Ten Thousand Islands)
Below, Captain Jean issues an invitation to explore upstream on Shark and Little Shark Rivers. I join with her, BUT there are a few charted, but not marked, shoals along the way that must be carefully avoided!
We usually just make the loop from little Shark to Shark back to Little Shark as we did yesterday 3-18-2010. We have usually anchored near Gunboat Island but this time just dropped the hook east of the green 69 for a quiet night and an early start the next morning. However, next time, we may venture farther ‘“ we have taken the dinghy on the North Harney-Harney River loop and I don’t see why one couldn’t go all the way out the Harney to close to the gulf, then turn around and come back. We draw 3.5 ft. We have visited the Shark River area in the winter several times and mosquitoes have not been much of a problem. If your experience of the Little Shark is limited to anchoring near the mouth, consider a nice cruise among the mangroves (be sure to keep track of where you are on the chart) before dropping the hook for the night.
Jean Thomason (DOVEKIE)
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