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I am looking on some advice on where to take my small boat this weekend where I can take my two kids tubing. Familiar with all the fishing spots but they are just now old enough to try out the tube they got for Christmas. Any advice on where to go would be greatly appreciated. I am in NE Tallahassee. Thanks!

up the Wakulla river from the fort landing is nice. And cool water too

There's going to be so many boats out this weekend I'm not sure there will be a safe place to tube without danger of being run over. For tubing, we go to the Flint river in Bainbridge. Great ramp, big beach to set a tent and BBQ, rope swing, and cool water. When not tubing, you can just hang on the beach. Fun place for watersports.

Hit-n-Miss wrote: up the Wakulla river from the fort landing is nice. And cool water too

I was thinking the Wakulla and St Marks above the fort were full of no wake zones. Not very favorable to tubing.
Maybe I was wrong.

I second the Flint, but like he said, THIS weekend, not too good. Boats will be thick. Just would not go down near the lake area tubing with kids. Too many BIG gators....



Dubble

I hear the Ochlocknee State Park is also a good place but I've never been there tubing myself.

DEMON wrote:I hear the Ochlocknee State Park is also a good place but I've never been there tubing myself.

We were there last Thursday, and had the whole place to ourselves. It was NICE! We took the jetskis down Crooked River over to Carrabelle and back. Then came back to the picnic tables at the empty park and had lunch.

I can bet it won't be that nice this weekend!

But yes, you have the whole river to tube in there, and it is really wide in that area.



Dubble

No way my kids are tubing in the Wakulla/St. Marks rivers this week-end or any other.....State park is where you need to go with kids and still you have to be careful

Gulf Coast wrote:No way my kids are tubing in the Wakulla/St. Marks rivers this week-end or any other.....State park is where you need to go with kids and still you have to be careful

I agree 100%.

Be careful at the State Park, make sure you go in the correct direction and be cognizant of other boaters as well.

Scoop Sea wrote:

Gulf Coast wrote:No way my kids are tubing in the Wakulla/St. Marks rivers this week-end or any other.....State park is where you need to go with kids and still you have to be careful

I agree 100%.

Be careful at the State Park, make sure you go in the correct direction and be cognizant of other boaters as well.

If I put in at the park ramp, I would go on down the river a little to tube. Much less traffic. And by the way, the correct direction is Counter-clockwise around the island. There is a sign at the ramp outlet stating this.

When you leave the ramp outlet, do NOT turn left. Go out and around the island to get to the park beaches.....



Dubble

That sign refers to vehicle traffic at the boat ramp not the water.

Arclight wrote:That sign refers to vehicle traffic at the boat ramp not the water.

No sir. You are dead wrong there bud. The sign is in the canal. I been going there 20 years. The direction around the island is Counter-clockwise!

Dubble

Blue springs near mayo its on the Suwannee river I believe.

Dubble Trubble wrote:

Arclight wrote:That sign refers to vehicle traffic at the boat ramp not the water.

No sir. You are dead wrong there bud. The sign is in the canal. I been going there 20 years. The direction around the island is Counter-clockwise!

Sec. 23.008. - Path of vessels in or around Ochlocknee State Park regulated; penalty.

(a)
The term "vessel" is defined to mean any vessel used for recreational or other purposes operated by one or more persons, including but not limited to jet skis, wave runners, and other jet drive vessels.

(b)
All vessels must travel in a counter-clockwise pattern in and around the Ochlocknee River State Park area on the Ochlocknee River.

(c)
Violations of this section shall be a second degree misdemeanor, and shall subject all persons convicted of violation of same to penalties of a second degree misdemeanor, as provided for by applicable law.

Scoop Sea wrote:

Dubble Trubble wrote:

Arclight wrote:That sign refers to vehicle traffic at the boat ramp not the water.

No sir. You are dead wrong there bud. The sign is in the canal. I been going there 20 years. The direction around the island is Counter-clockwise!

Sec. 23.008. - Path of vessels in or around Ochlocknee State Park regulated; penalty.

(a)
The term "vessel" is defined to mean any vessel used for recreational or other purposes operated by one or more persons, including but not limited to jet skis, wave runners, and other jet drive vessels.

(b)
All vessels must travel in a counter-clockwise pattern in and around the Ochlocknee River State Park area on the Ochlocknee River.

(c)
Violations of this section shall be a second degree misdemeanor, and shall subject all persons convicted of violation of same to penalties of a second degree misdemeanor, as provided for by applicable law.

Thanks Scoop. I knew the regs were somewhere, but I could not find them.....

Dubble

Or, just drop in at Lake Iamonia. Just pulled off of there. Plenty of room to tube on the North end of the lake by K & K Fish Camp.