Canoeing the Ocklawaha to an Ancient Florida Indian Bluff Midden

On this escapade, we paddled up the Ocklawaha River into a tributary thereof and visited an ancient Native American bluff shell midden. At this site, there were many discarded aquatic snail refuse, limestone varieties of rock, and animal bones. There was a lot of napping from the chert/flint and soapstone and other various forms of limestone-fused rock. The ancient Florida Indians made use of the different mineral compositions of limestone rock to build weaponry, storage vessels, chiseled figurines, tools, and much more. Here we saw some decorative potsherds with incised and check-stamped imprints. This part of the Ocklawaha had a steady and strong current until we reached the tributary. It was a fabulous day, but a little hot.