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Our last day of the trip.

We saw a few bald eagles. This was the first one sitting still for us.
And onto getting off the river. Luckily for us today the wind was working for us, and enabled us a very easy exit off of the river. Here are some notes for anyone [...]

You know, I don’t seem to have any photos from our campsite on day 5, it was actually one of our most memorable, as we slept in this amazing field. The floor was moss covered and made for an exceptionally soft bed and there were small herbs everywhere that I can only describe as [...]

24 hours after trauma of almost be killed by the river, I some how find myself on it again.

Though it may not look it in this photo, we’re moving at a very good clip and getting bounced around quite a bit.

Random photo of the other canoe team.

Weather was still holding… tonight’s camp was a particularly [...]

After lunch on our third day the weather was perfect and we cruised along.

Throughout the trip the river would occasionally toss us some small swells or whirl pools, nothing really that scary. In fact up to this point we would occasionally aim for them as they would relieve the boredom of just trying to [...]

Here we are packing up the canoes for day three on the river. Note the light levels between all these photos and how it never really changes.

I had my camera in this specially bought water proof camera bag. Although the bag wore out by the end of the trip, it actually did an [...]

Our first actually day of canoing. After lugging all our equipment a good long distance from the landing, we inflated the canoes, packed, and we’re ready to go!

I spent the next 8 days in that front seat.

We quickly discovered that the river wasn’t all that deep.
The first day kept teasing us with rain though [...]