The Rain Stopped Just As I Pulled Into The Nature Center, Where I Was Greeted By A Band Of Six Children Of Both Sexes And Various Skin Colors. Tucker Turned Out To Be A Young Man With A Smile That Turned Sharply Upward At The Corners. In Truth, I Don’T Think Any Of Them Were Younger Than Seventeen, But Even The Oldest Was Less Than Half My Age And I Kept Wondering If There Shouldn’T Be An Adult In Charge. I Certainly Wasn’T In Charge.
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I Had No Clue Where We Should Put In Or Take Out Or Where This Giant Tree Was Supposed To Be. The Young Ones Scurried About Readying The Canoe Trailer And Gathering The Paddles, Life Jackets, Radios, Maps, Sunscreen, And All The Other Items Necessary For An Adventure Such As This. I Felt As If I Were Wendy, Deep In The Forest Of Neverland With The Lost Boys. I Just Tried To Relax And Enjoy My Status As The Honorary Mother-Naturalist.
We Unloaded The Canoes At A Bridge Over A Very Small And Smelly Black Creek. I Shared A Boat With Tucker. The Water Level Was Low, And A Submerged Log Soon Prevented Our Passage. I Had Worn My Trusty Black Rubber Knee Boots For Exactly This Sort Of Situation. But With My First Step Out Of The Canoe, The Muddy Water Came Rushing Through A Hole In My Right Boot. The Boot That Had Served Me Reliably For Thirteen Years Picked This Very Day To Begin Leaking. Now It Kept Water In Instead Of Out. Oh Well, Wet Feet Didn’T Really Matter On A Day This Hot. Once Across The Log, We Climbed Back Into The Canoe And Paddled For At Least Two Minutes Before We Came To Another Log That Blocked Our Way. Out Again, Drag The Canoe Over, Then Back In. Soon There Was Another Limb Blocking The Only Deep Section Of The Creek. Out Again. Only This Time, As We Looked Ahead We Could See That Soon We Would Be Out Again, So We Didn’T Bother Getting Back In. We Just Waded Through The Shallows, Pulling The Canoe Along. I Would Have Been Happy To Walk The Entire Length Of The Creek, But That Wasn’T Possible Either. My Left Foot Sank Into A Hole So Deep That Water Rushed Over The Top Of My Only Dry Boot, And Soon I Was In Water Up To My Thighs. I Hauled My Wet And Muddy Self Back Into The Canoe Before I Had To Start Swimming.
Occasionally, We Were Lucky, And The Log Crossing The Creek Was High Enough That We Could Bend Backward In The Canoe And Slide Under It. During Those Passages, Our Noses Practically Scraped Bark. But The Next Log Would Be Too Low To Pass Under, And The Water Beneath It Too Deep To Wade Through, Forcing Us To Climb Out By Balancing On One Foot In The Boat While Stretching The Other Onto The Log. (This Journey Is Not For Those Who Lack Good Balance!) Once Both Feet Were On The Log, It Was A Back-Aching Task To Hoist The Canoe Up And Over It. In Most Canoeing Situations, One Would Step Ashore And Carry The Canoe Around Rather Than Over A Log Like That, But We Were In The Midst Of A Trackless Way, A Swamp, And Stepping “Ashore” Would Have Meant Sinking Deep Into The Mud. The Other Three Canoes Were Ahead Of Us, And I Was Marveling At How Well The Youngsters Were Doing When The Quiet Was Pierced By Screams For Help. Tucker And I Paddled As Fast As We Could, Imagining All Sorts Of Horrible Things. As We Approached, We Saw A Girl In Mud Up To Her Hips And Still Sinking. She Had Tried To Go Ashore To Relieve Herself, But Started Sinking So Quickly And Deeply That She Feared For Her Life.
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