And lookit that, it's fall already. Well, maybe when I monkey with the saturation levels on a picture, the fall part is very dramatic, but still... summer? over. Sigh.
That picture, by the way, is from a float down the Beaver River from Heathcote in a 14' Necky kayak with a giant cockpit and no sprayskirt. No sprayskirt = damp lap the entire time. The trip itself is fine. In the upper reaches, there are a few beaver dams and logjams that require a bit of wiggling and/or rocking - hence the rental shorter plastic boat is a better call than a 19' glass sea kayak. That section was reminiscent of the Minesing Swamp. You don't really want to get out of the boat here, since it's all ankle-sucking muck and slippy banks. In the lower reaches, it gets a bit boring after a while - lazy meanders and cows and geese. There is one so-called rapid, with a big red warning sign on the river. You would be overstating the case to call it Class I.
Still, a pretty fun way to spend a Sunday. More fun than, say, sitting in my backyard taking a screwdriver to the non-functioning part of my vacuum cleaner (no success, but then, we don't really expect success when I take a screwdriver to anything), which is what I did for part of Saturday. And, realistically, I best get to liking these sorts of daytrips because that's all I'll have time for in the coming months. Summer is over. Sigh.
Posted by Johanna at September 15, 2009 08:21 AM