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- Apr 13, 2006
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.................one of our family's other fun things to do ( besides detecting ) is canoe the small rivers here in the midwest. I bought 3 aluminum canoes recently & had the local vocational school welding class build me a canoe trailer.
So........here are my kids earlier this spring near some whitewater looking & catching some crawdads:
One section of this river had an old bridge with the pier in the center of the river. In 1997, the river was 8-9 over the street level of that bridge. It was the largest flooding ever recorded there in history. You can see what happens during the winter floods:
Yep, the debris builds up sooo much, one can hardly canoe around it. In fact, this year you can only get around the right side of it in the picture.
We usually split up with my wife & older son in one canoe & my younger daughter & me in another. You can see why I get her. She's a real help with the paddling part.........( look ahead, we are always behind ! LOL )
Here's my son getting in a little whitewater & dodging the branches at the same time:
OK, OK, after several miles, they are ready to get out again. Here is the family "hunting" for the crawdads 4 miles from the nearest road in the middle of nowhere:
Here's another pic of the two of us. This section of the river is narrow but 7-8 feet deep. Great place to "flip" canoes which happen several times that day.
For a little while.......we switched partners & you can see it's funny watching my bride & daughter in action. Here they are "stuck" on a snag in the center of the river:
Lifetime of memories, my friends......lifetime of memories.....
The dog you see lying under the truck followed us for 3 miles down the river on the riverbank. He even swam across the river at the take out point to be with us.
Here are the 2 canoes on the chase truck ready to go back to the trailer which is 7 miles upstream.
Hope you enjoyed the pics..........see ya mark
So........here are my kids earlier this spring near some whitewater looking & catching some crawdads:
One section of this river had an old bridge with the pier in the center of the river. In 1997, the river was 8-9 over the street level of that bridge. It was the largest flooding ever recorded there in history. You can see what happens during the winter floods:
Yep, the debris builds up sooo much, one can hardly canoe around it. In fact, this year you can only get around the right side of it in the picture.
We usually split up with my wife & older son in one canoe & my younger daughter & me in another. You can see why I get her. She's a real help with the paddling part.........( look ahead, we are always behind ! LOL )
Here's my son getting in a little whitewater & dodging the branches at the same time:
OK, OK, after several miles, they are ready to get out again. Here is the family "hunting" for the crawdads 4 miles from the nearest road in the middle of nowhere:
Here's another pic of the two of us. This section of the river is narrow but 7-8 feet deep. Great place to "flip" canoes which happen several times that day.
For a little while.......we switched partners & you can see it's funny watching my bride & daughter in action. Here they are "stuck" on a snag in the center of the river:
Lifetime of memories, my friends......lifetime of memories.....
The dog you see lying under the truck followed us for 3 miles down the river on the riverbank. He even swam across the river at the take out point to be with us.
Here are the 2 canoes on the chase truck ready to go back to the trailer which is 7 miles upstream.
Hope you enjoyed the pics..........see ya mark
