Got up this morning to a clear blue sky and sunshine. Yesterday it wasn't completely overcast, but it was cloudy, and it dripped rain periodically, sometimes when the sun was shining. Last night the skies cleared, and we're far enough away from light centers that we could see lots and lots of stars. It was so humid that a thick fog formed which mingled with the campfire smoke around the campground. With the camper light strings glowing through the eerie fog making strange shadows, it slightly resembled that camping scene out of Harry Potter, except no one conjured a Dark Mark.
Today has just been crystal, so after we had breakfast we signed up for a two-hour canoe trip. The river is very low, and he said the two-hour trips had been taking three and four hours, and the four-hour trip took you up to where the river was so shallow you had to do a lot of portaging. It was perfect for canoeing. The air was still a little cool so we didn't bake too much in the sun, and the water was also still cool. We had to pay attention and choose our spots all along the trip to avoid the shallows and the rocks. There were little baby rapids all down the way, nothing that ranked as adventurous, but still fun.
We saw schools of brown trout, spotted shadows over the rocks (they seemed to like the river bends with rocks and rapids). We saw a bald eagle, and an immature eagle of some unidentifiable type, and two Baltimore orioles fighting over a tree. We rode up the river with three large van-loads of people from our campground, and there were lots of other people out on the river from other outfitters, but it was still so lovely and peaceful. We looked up at the bikers on the bike trail, whereas yesterday we had looked down from our bikes to the canoers. We passed (or were passed by) some kayaks (these seem especially favored by preteen and teenage boys). They looked like fun but I'm not sure you could fit a dog in there with you.
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