Majed Sighting at Leesylvania State Park

Hey Rats and Rat Wannabes! Sunday, May 31 was our first trip to Leesylvania State Park. The park is nice, but I gotta tell ya, the launch site is pretty dismal - including the snakes and doofy park rangers. The good news is it's within a biscuit toss from Tim's River Shore where Josh, Brent and I stopped for some seafood and refreshing libations. Before that, though, we paddled under the train bridge, wound through the lily pads and meandered down a long creek until the water got too shallow to navigate. It looked a lot like Pohick, but the creek wasn't as fun. Anyone with a boat longer than 12 feet, may have had a problem turning around, too.

Meanwhile, back at the boat landing, we spied a suspicious yellow kayak atop a tan car. It was our long lost Majed who had arrived late and never found us in the water. It was so great to have him join us (sort of) for his first paddle of the season. Welcome Back Majed! We've missed you!

I'm cooking up plans for next week's paddle - stay tuned.

Friday, August 22, 2008

August 16 - Georgetown

Shawn, Ashley and I headed upriver from Jack's boathouse on Saturday - a crisp and beautiful day. Jacks has really fantastic rental boats, so of course, Shawn had to speed out way in front of the pack, and Ashley zipped right along. We paddled past Fletcher's boathouse and the Chain Bridge to see how far we could go before hitting the dam. We only got about 200 yards further before we hit impassible rapids. We were able to paddle right up to the little falls, but unless we wanted to portage, we were stopped in our tracks. So, we coasted the current back downstream in half the time.

There were a LOT of tourist out - almost all of Jack's enormouse fleet of rental boats was gone when we returned. Most of the tourist had gone downstream and had some work to do to get back to the boathouse - suckers!

I didn't make it out to Jack this week (sorry Josh), but I will be out there for sure next week - which day will depend on the weather.
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