Thursday, July 01, 2004
Floating through Turkey Run
I'm not taking my new camera on the water until I get the waterproof case so these pictures are after we took the kayaks out of Sugar Creek at the Jackson Bridge.
If there is a prettier creek to run than Sugar Creek through Turkey Run State Park, I don't know of it.
(Dean and Bryce pose with me at the end of 8 miles on the creek.)
The put-in was at a sandy beach, the same one used by the outfitters and it was nice that we didn't have to pay (it was not so nice that we had to push our kayaks off a cliff to get them to the beach). The water was warm and, in places, swift. The creek is easy to run through the park. There are only a few downed trees. The water was clear and there was enough of it so that I only scraped bottom 2 or 3 times all day.
I got turned backwards one time and almost ran between two downed trees but that would have been showing off so I slipped into the knee deep water and turned my kayak upside down instead.
While Dean and Bryce went for the truck, I changed clothes under my towel like the surfers do on California beaches. Lucky I had a big towel.
John
