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The River is like a snake with a hundred bends. The beauty of it is the fact that on weekends there can be dozens of canoes and kayaks on it and you still feel you have it for yourself. Sometimes you see nobody from one end to the other, except for an occasional fisherman.
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The river winds through miles of dense Forest and occasionally I see the sunlight finding its way through the foliage. Quick shot from moving kayak but the best I could get at the time.
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This is the same Beaver Dam I posted a picture of last week. The sucker had the whole river blocked by this time and someone tore a hole in it big enough to get a canoe through. This is a great place to tip over, The river swings out away from a bunch of fallen trees and many people have a hard time staying afloat.
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This is another rather poor shot, it looks like I had some smudge on my lens, of a spring that is always flowing into the river, summer and winter. It is very pretty in that area. In fact this is the area that the ice dam formed a couple years ago and I had to walk out in January.
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In the logging days, when this area was all logged out, the logs were piled in huge piles at the top of this bank and when the water was high, much higher than now, the logs were rolled into the river and floated to the mills. Looking at the river today it is hard to believe it has ever been any different than it is now. There were huge forest of Pine and hardwood in the area though and it was stripped, as was most of Michigan. More than once
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This is just another shot of the upper river. It winds through low land and it is full of springs. You can hear them trickling into the river but rarely see them as the brush is so thick. There are about a half dozen creeks running into the river in the area I usually go but if you didn't know where to look, you would miss them. In fact I have found all but one and have not been able to see it as we drift by.
I hope some of you enjoy seeing Michigan at its best
The River is like a snake with a hundred bends. The beauty of it is the fact that on weekends there can be dozens of canoes and kayaks on it and you still feel you have it for yourself. Sometimes you see nobody from one end to the other, except for an occasional fisherman.
[attachment 8277 2river2.jpg]
The river winds through miles of dense Forest and occasionally I see the sunlight finding its way through the foliage. Quick shot from moving kayak but the best I could get at the time.
[attachment 8278 2river3.jpg]
This is the same Beaver Dam I posted a picture of last week. The sucker had the whole river blocked by this time and someone tore a hole in it big enough to get a canoe through. This is a great place to tip over, The river swings out away from a bunch of fallen trees and many people have a hard time staying afloat.
[attachment 8279 2river4.jpg]
This is another rather poor shot, it looks like I had some smudge on my lens, of a spring that is always flowing into the river, summer and winter. It is very pretty in that area. In fact this is the area that the ice dam formed a couple years ago and I had to walk out in January.
[attachment 8280 2river5.jpg]
In the logging days, when this area was all logged out, the logs were piled in huge piles at the top of this bank and when the water was high, much higher than now, the logs were rolled into the river and floated to the mills. Looking at the river today it is hard to believe it has ever been any different than it is now. There were huge forest of Pine and hardwood in the area though and it was stripped, as was most of Michigan. More than once
[attachment 8281 2river6.jpg]
This is just another shot of the upper river. It winds through low land and it is full of springs. You can hear them trickling into the river but rarely see them as the brush is so thick. There are about a half dozen creeks running into the river in the area I usually go but if you didn't know where to look, you would miss them. In fact I have found all but one and have not been able to see it as we drift by.
I hope some of you enjoy seeing Michigan at its best
