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plantbrain
06-27-2003, 9:44 PM
http://tom-barr.aquatic-plants.org/
Ya'll got about a month to make them plans!
Disney is about 1.5 hr drive.
Get out of the box and into the water!
Regards,
Tom Barr
Timmain42
06-27-2003, 10:31 PM
I met another Friend of Tom Barr today, she sent me this link...
Dallas-Fort Worth Aquatic Plant Club (http://www.aquatic-plants.org/main.html)
Glad to know there's more of us here than just myself. Sorry I won't be coming to your float trip, sounds like fun.
http://tom-barr.aquatic-plants.org/pin%20pic1.gif
:)
plantbrain
06-28-2003, 12:54 AM
Well at least you can bug the others from the DFW group that are coming for photo's and see if it was cool or not.
Regards,
Tom Barr
Matak
07-01-2003, 10:31 PM
Arrrgh! FLA is a looong days drive. I would so much love to go. Toronto is so much more central.
plantbrain
07-02-2003, 7:10 AM
Drive? Fly.
It's cheaper than the $ spent on gas.
I can drive to the Dallas meeting of the AGA this Nov but it's 14 hrs of road torture.
That 140$ plane ticket for a 1.5 hr flight looks mighty good vs a 14 hr drive.
Canada would be a long 2 days of driving.
Regards,
Tom Barr
It's the middle of my busy season and I can't get away. All I can hope for is: That you would hold another in the winter, or, hold a conference somewhere in the industrial northeast. Any hope of these two?
Dabbler II
07-02-2003, 11:59 PM
Drive? Fly.
It's cheaper than the $ spent on gas.
hey It would be $650.00 from Toronto or $750 from Edmonton. I can do a lot of driving for that cash:D :D
Flying is not cheaper:(
plantbrain
07-03-2003, 12:33 AM
Who is your ticket agent? Can I sell you plane tickets in the future?
I just checked one site quick, 288.09$ US dollars to JAX from Toronto round trip.
Rent a car or carpool with the others that are coming down on the same day from JAX.
Regards,
Tom Barr
Dabbler II
07-03-2003, 9:04 AM
Our wonderful National Carrier Air Canada ( who is in bankrupcy protection) from there site.
I just did a quik check:D
plantbrain
07-03-2003, 6:36 PM
Like the wonderous art work suggest........you can always hitch hike if you are cheap and/or ain't got the dough.
Just went down the Ichetucknee today. Saw larges schools of blue shiners(?), a nearly 2ft painted turtle, large schools of FL darters, the largest crawfish I have ever seen, and there's were many moss covered cypress roots and knees, + a new species of lobed moss I have not seen before.
Regards,
Tom Barr
Do you have an idea of how many are pre-registered Tom?
plantbrain
07-03-2003, 10:28 PM
I have about 20 so far that have confirmed. A group from DFW are coming, some from the Atlantic seaboard, TN and several from locally here.
A couple are coming early(be here manana) since they couldn't get the time off.
But I'm heading down to the Keys Marine Lab for a week or so this Sunday.
I have SW stuff to do there.
I don't think I'll give trips in FL again.
Unless we all have an AGA event here in which case I'll come back and give the field trips to a few locations. I plan to move back to SF Bay Area after this next year is over. I've seen too many plants in the water here:)
It's just a neat Tropical jungle like place that's much closer than Brazil and the fish are shiners instead of tetras. There's plenty of big fish running through the locations.
The forest that the Ichetucknee runs through is nice all on it's own and is a great way to Water Oaks/Bald Cypress/ferns/mosses, critters.....
But most of the trip has your head submerged in the water.
More driftwood than you can shake a stick at along the bottom and some 20ft diameter submerged stumps. And a gazillion snails. Some rare and protected.
If you like water, you'll have fun.
Regards,
Tom Barr