First Family River Kayak Trip

I must admit that I had fun, despite the numerous bottom scrapes, rock perches and bottom dragging that we did. Oh yeah, flipping a sit on top - twice - on this size of water has to be some kind of record as well ;-). As for the rest of the family - well, I think Aeden's expression says it all.

We started off for a three hour cruise. Not bad for 20 minutes of shuttling to a river that is five minutes from the house. The water was pretty high - we just didn't seem to have a knack for finding the deeper spots in rocky sections. Lot's of flora and fauna. Bunches of king fishers, a couple of great blue herons, saw a few fish and a number of hikers (all of whom seemed to want to take a picture of us in the boat).

The kids seemed to enjoy it, more after the fact than during, but August kept saying "big rock... big rock" which he readily learned after we ended up perched on top of the fifth or sixth rock and I had to get out and push. He got lots more practice at that statement throughout the paddle.

Definitely will need to get out there again. I'll see if I can talk Aeden into taking a run when the water is a bit higher.