Pretty High Water

Well, the water was in the grass at our launch point at MP 7. Usually it's a seal launch down a foot or two at this point. It was pretty clean running left in the rapid above the Mt. Norway Bridge, but the holes on our right were enormous. Things were pretty washed out on the way down to Cougar Creek. Here again, the run was on the left.
Down at the Rock Island, the boily eddy on the right made it a little squirrely getting back to the left for the drop past the ledge hole.
But one of the real fun parts was the wave at MP 1. My Remix fit in it really well, then Curt in his Mamba got a great ride. Both of us were humbled to see Ann shred it with her borrowed Rocker.
The WASW1 gauge was reading about 9.1 feet.

Otters show up again

Otters came again yesterday. It looked like one adult and two, maybe three, pups. They were simply hanging out down at the shore. While they were there, they caught at least 3 fish - it was pretty hard to video those events because they were usually pretty chaotic, and an otter tends to swim underwater when it has a fish in its mouth. It was pretty funny watching them - this long video is just a fraction of what was going on. One other thing - they were coming up in the tall grass and brush, doing something. I could tell by the way the grass was rustling, but the otters were hardly visible, so no video.

There was something about the pups, the curiosity, the occasional hesitation, and the hyper-activity, that made them seem like all young animals. Very cute.