thanks for the welcome

[gatorbait]

thank you'all for the welcom, and the good info on loop rd. yeah i know it's park now,but i'd still like to burn a tank full out there for old timers sake. i don't mind grinding down the poly some on the rocks--thats what it's for ,right?! i take a long walk south there every winter, sure takes me back, we used to have way too much water! i love this combee hull , it's tuff! i've beat the hell out of it bouncing off boulders and running up (then back down) the rapids in the big shallow rivers up here(out stste n. y. finger lakes) just craked it some here and there, no sence babying it!i stay in jensen beach all winter and would love to go riding with you ll ,don't mind towing it aways north ,south or west. p.s. anybody remember t. j.'s bar-b-que out u.s.41 ,alittle passed trail center (e-glades)? used to live out there ,in early 1980's,all wheel buggies and no rules much! how about Elison's camp in area 3? all this stuff changed my life when i was a kid ,just gettting back into it now, better late than..... right? thanks guys. my e-mail greenwaterdragon@localnet.com i love this site, and have 1,000,000 ?'s[/list]

 

[gruprgetr]

is the BBQ place still there on 41? man for the money they would put one big pile o food on ya

 

[coondog123]

Back in the late sixties and early seventies I use to coonhunt off of loop road. I remember a bar/store on the East end of the loop a few miles off hwy 41. Most of the hunting we did was inside the loop about 3 or 4 miles down from Monroe station on the west side of the loop. I remember many a day stepping off loop road folliowng the dogs and not see dry ground again till we got back to loop road. Back in those days you couldn't carry a gun at night with a gun when you coonhunted and we had to climb the trees and knock the coon out. A set of climbing spurs and a telescoping aluminum pole was the tools of the trade.

 

[eddy]

is the BBQ place still there on 41? man for the money they would put one big pile o food on ya

If your talking about "the pit" yes its still there, and its still some good food for the $

 

[airboat4fun]

Bad news about Ellisons Camp in 3a, nothing left but the dock
after a couple of hurricanes and many years of neglect the old camp is gone

 

[barhopper]

What Ellison's are they? There are some Ellison's in the Ocala area that were from down south. They names were Bob and Bobby. They have both passed away in recent years. I bought my first boat from Bob. It was a10ft aluminum hul with a Covair motor on it. That was in the early 80's