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August 13, 2006

i can, canoe?

So I went on a canoe trip down the Delaware River this past Saturday with a bunch of friends. We had a great time, managing to not get sunburned (well, only some of us) or capsize our canoes (again, there was an exception). A fun time was had by all. Woo-hoo!

Here are some of the photos from the trip (hold your mouse pointer over the thumbnails for descriptions and click for a larger image):

First person view of the river. The place where we ate lunch.
An interesting rock formation. Another interesting rock formation that looks like a toilet.

Here's the funny story for the day-- Two friends who were sharing a canoe (let's call them "Ken" and "Mark") capsized it twice and nearly sank it. It went like this: Ken decides to stand up in the canoe and hit a fishing bobber with an oar like a baseball. In his quest for glory, Ken forgets that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, i.e. Ken swings the oar forward (missing the bobber, I might add), his body moves backwards, he overcompensates trying to maintain his balance, and falls forward into the river. Ken pulls himself back into the canoe, but in the process causes Mark to lose his balance and fall into the river. Mark then tries to pull himself back into the canoe, but capsizes it and puts Ken back into the river, along with their cooler and other gear. They right the canoe and attempt to get back into it, but capsize it again, nearly filling it with enough water to sink it.

I watch the entire debacle from my own dry canoe, but since I'm quickly approaching some rapids, I'm unable to turn back to them to lend a hand (on second thought, I'm glad I didn't try to help them, or else this would be a story of how I fell into the river with them). I press forward and navigate the rapids while they try to pull everything to shore. It isn't until after the trip was over that we learned that they couldn't make it back to shore before hitting the rapids, so they went through them in the water while hanging on to the canoe.

That is all.

Posted by Savage Steve at August 13, 2006 3:02 PM

Comments

Cool, you can even see the steak bone in the lunch shot!

Posted by: AMD^2 & GED at August 14, 2006 3:02 PM

Now that I think about it, how come nobody picked it up and threw it into the woods? Tim nearly stepped right on it.

Posted by: Steve at August 14, 2006 9:15 PM

Would you pick up somebody else's meat??

Posted by: AMD^2 & GED at August 17, 2006 3:08 PM

I can't even continue reading this blog. It's getting completely distasteful.

And to think I'm friends with one of these, and married to the other. For those of you wondering, I'm married to "AMD^2 & GED."

Lieberman's up in the latest poll! Nanny-nanny-boo-boo!

Posted by: Jason Davis at August 17, 2006 9:16 PM

Wow... any comment will get posted here, eh?

Posted by: AMD^2 & GED & who? at August 18, 2006 3:31 PM