Day Three was a long paddle day for everyone, the jaunt was deemed the chili run since the goal at the end of the long day would be chili and drinks at Dick Kloss’s home. Dick’s wife, Bert, was at home making veggie chili for all of us which was delicious and had a good spice to it, Yum!!! We started at the Silver Springs river again and made our way onto the Ocklawahai River. It was an early start, 9 am….we are still on vacation of course so this was an early day. The water still had the morning fog hanging over it was almost as if we were paddling into a scene from Gorilla’s in the mist. We had gone down this river a little bit the first day, but got a lot more exploring in on it this time. We paddled for at least two hours on a nice small winding river, great practice for drafting and turning a whole bunch of canoes on corners at the same time. As we got further downstream we came to some major dams which sort of caused the water to pool up creating a pretty large swamp. Paddling in the swamp is a pretty interesting thing, you can see for a long ways ahead of you what appears to be clear sailing but as you get into the waters you begin to realize there are giant stumps about every ten feet or so. We had been pretty split up as a group by this point about 4 hours or more into the paddle but we could all easily see the line that everyone was following which was marked by large sign posts for the motor boats. This swamp was filled with lots of beautiful large birds but it was pretty hot with the blazing sun on you so we really worked on getting out of there unfortunately that meant sacrificing the photo taking on this trip. We finished out Day three with 31 miles and 5 hours and 30 minutes added to the logs.
No comments:
Post a Comment