Back Home Again In Indiana

Trees protect southern Indiana streams from kayakers. They usually collect on the deep side, the outside, of a bend and the inside is usually shallow - sometimes too shallow to float. Usually there is enough water near the downed trees to allow passage without getting scraped off your kayak or hitting a submerged tree part at the wrong angle and getting upside down in the creek. The camera looks directly downstream in the picture and the path does not look promising but when you paddle in to take a look, you find you can pick you way through this debris. Why is this so much fun? 

Like I say, I don't think either of these cabins is the one where we stayed... remember, Jess, when we floated the rowboat downstream and then had to row, row, row all the way back? We took turns rowing and both rowed together but, in the end, it was Jess who put his back into it and got us (I think Mary Kay was with us) back to the cabin. 40 years is a long time to remember something like that.
 

Leonard, Hodges and others (continued)- After the move to Paint Mill Lake in the early 60s, none of us returned to the Eel River cabin until last fall when we tried to find it by driving around on those roads for half a day. I don't think the cabin is there anymore but I snapped a picture of two cabins that looked a little like the way I remember it. From the Creek, I found a stairway to a cabin site where no cabin remains... that might be the place. I think I could find it on the road when you visit. I'll write it now to help me remember - upstream from the Center Point Bridge, stop at the first cabin/trailer on the right and look for steps to the creek.
 

Dick,
I was on the Eel River yesterday with Dean Branson and Bryce West. It was up and a little muddy. We entered at the IN 46 bridge east of Bowling Green (between Dietz Lake and Bowling Green) and ran the river to the Center Point bridge (the replacement for the bridge near the cabin).
It was a great day to be on the water. The Eel is very pretty downstream from the cabins where the south bank is rocky. For about a mile along there, it looks like Sugar Creek at Turkey Run.