So, I said yes to this 7 hour canoe trip today....It was beautiful and the first part of the trip was fabulous! Dennis took us to the put in spot about 10 a.m. The put in was just below Dease Lake and the campground was several miles away by road and lots more by twisty river. I figured this was my best chance to see a grizzly and Bullwinkle! HA!!! They don't exist! They are all figments! Shortly after we got started on the canoe trip we passed a sand bar and there were BIG bear tracks in the sand, but by the time I realized what they were we were past it and I did not get a picture.....of course I was still thinking I would see the real thing along the river.....
At that point the river was running fast but no rapids. I didn't have to paddle at all and all Jerry had to do basically was to steer and keep us out of trouble. The river was gorgeous and it was a great day. Then we got to the wider part of the river.....and that means SLOW water, little current.....I was perfectly content to let Jerry paddle but then I had to paddle as well or we never would have gotten back. Just before camp the river widened into a lake and we had to paddle across that....thank goodness for the wind at our backs...a headwind would have been a killer. We finally made it back to camp about 5 p.m.
Total wildlife sightings on this trip....2 female moose butts as they were running away, 3 eagles feasting on the carcass of a moose, some ducks I will have to ID when we get back to MO and I can look them up (they had babies too!) and 1 loon on the lake we paddled across.
We were exhausted when we got back to camp....the dogs were REALLY glad to see us. We had decided to leave them in RV - we did not want to risk upsetting the canoe should the dogs see a moose or a bear and get excited. Kudzu probably would not have been much of a problem, but Gabby gets pretty excited at anything with 4 legs and she is enough to unbalance a canoe.
Jerry took the canoe and the dogs and paddled down the lake we were on to an old goldminer's cabin and a waterfall. He did not get to the waterfall, but did have a bit of a scare when he landed the canoe - Gabby started barking and just took off. He was worried she wouldn't come back, but fortunately for her little fuzzy gray fanny she did. The wind also cam up while he was out and he had to paddle back against the wind. I was beginning to get a bit worried and was looking for them out of the RV w/ binoculars, but didn't see them as he had to hug the shoreline b/c of the headwind.
Jerry built another campfire tonite and we enjoyed that until it started raining and chased us inside. We LOVE this campground....Dennis and Lana are great and the location is fabulous!!! Even dry camping, we loved it....could stay here a lot longer and both of us feel this could be a destination. We were more than ready for bed tonite!!!
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