River cleaning patrol

There’s a lake/stream/creek/whatever you want to call it north of us called Brushy Creek, and we’re always driving over it and seeing people on Kayaks going underneath. Well in the search for something interesting to do with our weekends, we went up and rented some. The lake was very pretty, and we tooled around for a while seeing the sights along the banks. When we went under the bridge we had been driving over so many times we saw that the bottom was covered with mud-dauber nests, a good few hundred of them, most with little baby birds and a couple of frazzled parents running back and forth catching bugs and bringing them back home. Kids are so unappreciative of what their parents go through. :)

We went under the bridge and continued on for a while against the current until the lake turned into a river, and then a creek, and then a little stream. We ended up going under another bridge but just a few feet past that the river became so narrow we were bottoming out The Kayaks, so we turned around.

On the way back, mindful of Papa’s ever-present call to leave the campground better than we left it, we stopped off many times along the side of the river and picked up trash and stuff from among the roots. It lengthened our trip by quite a while, but it was pretty entertaining and exciting, especially when I noticed a three inch wide spider in my boat. No lie. Thing was huge. Jess came over to look at it and then swept it off my boat. She said she was glad it happened to me, because she would have freaked out.

Anyway, here’s the pictures we took at the end of the trip. As you can tell, we got a lot of trash. The people who rented us the kayaks were so pleased that they waived an hour of our boat fee. We’re quite proud, and the lake is a little bit cleaner for our efforts.




-N