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Canoeing Camping Trip
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
So me and my friend Jerry decide to go on a camping/canoeing trip. It was 3 day two nights, and about 9 miles on a creek leading into Lake Tuscaloosa. The first day was great, however when we where setting up camp and I went to get my sleeping bag out of my tent I found it was another tent, no sleeping bag! So I had to sleep in a rolled up tent:(
The next day was gorgeous on the creek. However we came across a Great Blue Heron with a wounded leg. It couldn’t fly. We had to put it down with a paddle blade to the neck.
The next problem was I left my coat at one of the stops along the creek. We had to paddle a mile back to get it, UP STREAM!
That night it started storming. We did get the tent set up and a fire made in time. A series of ropes and spare tent pieces served to keep the fire covered, the wind off us and held our cloths up to dry. It was quite a contraption. A homeless man would be proud of me. Luckily the rain slowed down, but that is when it began to get verrrrrrrrry cold. Sleeping in that wet cold plastic tent was really sucking now. I slept like an hour that night.
That morning I struggled to make a fire out of the rain soaked wood. We cooked some chicken we had in the cooler and tried to dry some clothing for the 8 mile paddle we had to get out. We had been camping not to far from a road, so as Jerry suffered soaking in the cold that morning he kept trying to persuade me to call my mother and have her come pick us up. I never let him forget that one.
Once we got on the water my friend fell in the water and was complaining about his frozen legs and feet for the next couple hours. He was trying to tell me we should try and build a fire in the boat somehow! I was like “just keep paddling and it will be over soon.”
Tags: boat, camping, jerry, lake tuscaloosa
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