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Tom Rowland Podcast

Mike Dunlap - Preparing For The Everglades Challenge - #0094

Tom Rowland Podcast

Waypoint TV

Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.9903 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Mike Dunlap is a Firefighter and fishing guide who is preparing for the Everglades Challenge. He plans to do the event on a Standup Paddleboard. The Everglades Challenge is an unsupported, expedition style adventure race for kayaks, canoes, and small boats. The distance is roughly 300 nautical miles depending on your course selection. There is a time limit of 8 days or less. Your safety and well being are completely up to you. You can follow the Everglades Challenge HERE, and watch Mike through instagram @chesapeaketjam. Follow @tom_rowland on instagram and watch every episode of Saltwater Experience for free on WaypointTV

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If you hunt enough, you learn the truth.

0:32.4

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0:36.8

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0:47.5

nothing leaves our hand until we know it'll work in yours. Because we don't just make the world's best

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cause we speak the language primos.

0:58.3

And it absolutely beautiful crystal Crystal Clear waters, manatees, there's some dolphins.

1:07.0

You see the southern stingray cruising by, big pods of our schools of snook like decent size snuck all 30 to 36 inches and I'm like oh man oh wait you're not fishing you're paddling so cruise down that whole way. Some people go on the inside, some people

1:26.5

go on the outside of Pine Island, and then you get down to Santa Bell. And this is where shortly before my race ended, I had an outgoing tide at

1:37.0

Santa Bell and it was flat calm and watch the sun come up and it was beautiful and

1:41.8

I was cruising I was doing five and a half

1:43.6

miles an hour six miles an hour I was like I've never gone this fast and

1:47.8

aboard I was like I'm flying I was like this is awesome and I started dying in the distance I was like well I don't

1:54.6

have to go to Naples I'd go all the way to an on to Marco because when you hit

1:58.7

Benita Springs there is no intercoastal waterway basically from that state park until you get down to Naples or just south of Naples and that's when you can get back inside so you have it's a mandatory offshore section and that depending on the weather can be brutal.

2:15.6

I was behind Scott and Josh. They started to hit some nasty weather as far as the

2:22.1

sea state but they were ahead of me and I was getting it as it built and built later in that day and I was like,

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