Tada!
yet another post has finally arrived. now ladies and gentlemen, i hope all realize that sentences like the one beginning that last post are supposed to be funny. yes, you might even smile and comment about it if you wanted. *sigh* i have a weird sense of humor, i'm sorry.
now, as for suffering you a few pictures, i will try. they will not be here now, but at some point. after weeding out the duplicates and fuzzy pics i have about 150 left. we did have a fabulous trip. i basically slept the entire trip there since i only got about 2.5 hours of sleep the night before. did i mention another good reason for going to sleep is when you're in the back seat of a pick up that has an in-service spit can directly in front of a high powered air conditioner? it was a struggle not to puke... but sleeping and listening to music was nice. by the way, we went to mullberry arkansas. and we went on a 13 mile trek down the mullberry river.
as for our water vehicles, there was an interesting change in events. instead of two man canoes, we ended up getting almost exlusively kayaks instead. so everyone got their own little kayak, except for 2 or 3 people who shared and soloed a couple of canoes. we let them shift out and take turns on the kayaks. for those of you who don't know, kayaks are actually a bit tricky to use. there were a bunch of boys turning around and around in circles all the way down the river. or going from one bank to the other and back again, traveling about 3 times as far as necessary.
at one point we discovered a giant rock (probably about 30 feet at it's highest) right in the middle of the river. so of course we climbed up it. and lept wildly off back into the river.
and of course we did a bit of skinny dipping, especially when we got far ahead of the others and had to wait. might as well pass the time swimming instead of sittin in the boat.
we got to see some rather beautiful scenery. i was able to take pictures of some of it. however, i missed a few good shots because there's no chance i'm going to take my camera out of it's water proof bag to take a shot when i'm navigating my way through some rapids. we saw one place on a corner where someone else had gone through side ways and their kayak had gotten wedged against a rock. the water had bent it and crushed and flattened the whole kayak. that was called "wrecking rock."
i enjoyed the ride tremendously, and also decided for longish treks like that one i prefer a canoe to the kayak. hopefully one of these days i will go back, or to another river, and do it on a better kayak (one that doesn't kill the back and has a water proof internal compartment for carrying gear) and when there is more water.
as luck would have it, there was a basket ball goal next to our camp site. so of course we made extensive use of it before and after the water part of the trip. i fell down several times on the heavy gravel and gashed myself quite nicely.
also as luck would have it (or god, since i don't believe in luck... :-P) i ended up sleeping in a tree house. nothin but me and the mosquitos and my sleeping bag. fortunately i was able to get a tent the second night. i was much happier.
we saw a bit of wildlife, my favorite being a copper head. it was quite a beautiful specimen, with a vivid pattern and a yellow tail (still a baby). i took pictures (and considered taking him home) and then the owner of the property came and smashed his head with a rock.
in my spare time i practiced my handstands, which are improving. yes, that's exactly what you always needed to know. i can tell you're thrilled. anyway...
it was an awesome trip. props to troop 342. it may be my last big escapade with them, so i'm glad to have gone out with a bang.
now, as for suffering you a few pictures, i will try. they will not be here now, but at some point. after weeding out the duplicates and fuzzy pics i have about 150 left. we did have a fabulous trip. i basically slept the entire trip there since i only got about 2.5 hours of sleep the night before. did i mention another good reason for going to sleep is when you're in the back seat of a pick up that has an in-service spit can directly in front of a high powered air conditioner? it was a struggle not to puke... but sleeping and listening to music was nice. by the way, we went to mullberry arkansas. and we went on a 13 mile trek down the mullberry river.
as for our water vehicles, there was an interesting change in events. instead of two man canoes, we ended up getting almost exlusively kayaks instead. so everyone got their own little kayak, except for 2 or 3 people who shared and soloed a couple of canoes. we let them shift out and take turns on the kayaks. for those of you who don't know, kayaks are actually a bit tricky to use. there were a bunch of boys turning around and around in circles all the way down the river. or going from one bank to the other and back again, traveling about 3 times as far as necessary.
at one point we discovered a giant rock (probably about 30 feet at it's highest) right in the middle of the river. so of course we climbed up it. and lept wildly off back into the river.
and of course we did a bit of skinny dipping, especially when we got far ahead of the others and had to wait. might as well pass the time swimming instead of sittin in the boat.
we got to see some rather beautiful scenery. i was able to take pictures of some of it. however, i missed a few good shots because there's no chance i'm going to take my camera out of it's water proof bag to take a shot when i'm navigating my way through some rapids. we saw one place on a corner where someone else had gone through side ways and their kayak had gotten wedged against a rock. the water had bent it and crushed and flattened the whole kayak. that was called "wrecking rock."
i enjoyed the ride tremendously, and also decided for longish treks like that one i prefer a canoe to the kayak. hopefully one of these days i will go back, or to another river, and do it on a better kayak (one that doesn't kill the back and has a water proof internal compartment for carrying gear) and when there is more water.
as luck would have it, there was a basket ball goal next to our camp site. so of course we made extensive use of it before and after the water part of the trip. i fell down several times on the heavy gravel and gashed myself quite nicely.
also as luck would have it (or god, since i don't believe in luck... :-P) i ended up sleeping in a tree house. nothin but me and the mosquitos and my sleeping bag. fortunately i was able to get a tent the second night. i was much happier.
we saw a bit of wildlife, my favorite being a copper head. it was quite a beautiful specimen, with a vivid pattern and a yellow tail (still a baby). i took pictures (and considered taking him home) and then the owner of the property came and smashed his head with a rock.
in my spare time i practiced my handstands, which are improving. yes, that's exactly what you always needed to know. i can tell you're thrilled. anyway...
it was an awesome trip. props to troop 342. it may be my last big escapade with them, so i'm glad to have gone out with a bang.
posted by quirky at 8:00 PM
1 Comments:
sounds like quite the trip you had there. I'd like to have seen this tree house...what great fun that could have been if those darn bugs weren't a problem. They haven't hit WI full force yet, so I'm still enjoying the great outdoors bug free...for the moment at least. And just so you know...I DO need to know about your handstands...that is of the greatest importance! Keep up the good work!
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