Sunday, September 2, 2007

Rockin' & Rollin' Down the Caddo

We decided to go kayaking today down the Caddo River. We found a canoe outfitters place that would drive in the car with us up the river and then take our car down the river to the stopping point. We don't have a river kayak, but figured our ocean kayak would work just the same. The only problem is that, as I mentioned in earlier blogs, Arkansas hasn't had rain in a while and the river is very low. Our ocean kayak has a "V" shape to the bottom. I'm sure you can see where this explanation is going. For the most part we moved along pretty well until we came to the rapids and ended up doing the "boot skootin' boogie" over the rocks.

It was really beautiful and we saw a lot of wildlife along the way. We saw Trout, a really big Heron, spotted Gar and a ton of turtles. One neat thing was there was this butterfly that rode the whole way down the river with us, either on my shoulder or my hat (see picture below).

By afternoon we decided it was time to have lunch, so we stopped in a shady spot along the river. We were half way into our sandwiches when I looked over and noticed two river snakes fighting (or at least I thought they were fighting). Scott thought they were really cool, but as they started to move a little closer I thought it may be time to get on our merry way. I don't think they cared for us interrupting their afternoon romance. We had a blast and ended up completing the 6 hour trip in half the time. Who says an ocean kayak can't handle the river!



Click here to see all our photos from Kayaking on the Caddo River

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like you two are having a ball! Im going o buy a moped and trail ya across the country!
-BJ

Unknown said...

Hey Guys - Keep Truckin'!

You're doing a great job keep us in the loop on your great adventure. I feel I'm right there with you.

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Thanks again!

Travis

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