Saddle overlook

Oct 20

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Floating the river

Oct 09

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Here in this little town we have two rivers, one is the Smith and the other is the Dan. Two years ago on my birthday my present was to float the river and Caleb has wanted to do it again ever since….well this weekend was the deal. The trip we took was the same as last time, about 8-9 miles on the water in a canoe. Caleb got a paddle like dad and had fun doing what he calls hitting the brakes. Hitting the brakes is defined as putting his paddle in the water and not paddling, which worked pretty good to slow us down and help us turn and to be honest he really helped when it was needed. I didn’t get many pictures as I have a non water proff phone…not for long tho as my next will be. We also stopped at what Caleb calls rock island and it is named correctly as it’s an island of nothing but rocks in the middle of the river. Rapids are not bad at all as the river is waist deep or less most of the trip and at a couple of spots you have to get out and push off the rocks bit anyway here are a few pictures of the trip… Please note in the last picture Caleb is holding a big rock…there is one like it in the floorboard of my explorer and this seems to be starting a tradition.

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