River Ride

It's been a couple of years since we have had time to squeeze in our "annual" canoe trip down the St. Croix River but we fit it in our schedule on Saturday, August 10th.

The weather was slight overcast with temps in the low to mid 70's and it was perfect, not too hot, not too cold.  The clouds did get clear later in the afternoon and it did get pretty hot then with the sun shining and reflecting directly on our silver canoe.

This canoe ride is a 17 mile trip and we make sure it takes us all day.  We left around 11:30 am and got back in around 6:30 pm which is pretty early for us.  We stopped for a picnic lunch at our normal resting spot just past Osceola, which is close half way through the trip I believe.

The river was deep in places and super shallow in many spots as well.  The water looked pretty clean from what I could tell.

As we were paddling down the river, I mentioned something about us being Lewis and Clark, which we kept up and revising it and we decided, yep, we were Lewis and Clark, just not the duo you normally think of. We were Jerry Lewis and Clark Griswold.  We thought it was pretty funny.

Our watermelon picnic toast