A bit of adventure on the Jock River

I enjoy looking at all of the Polypore fungi along the edges of the river. Some have been around for more than a couple of years since I have seen them and photographed them on previous trips up the river.

Navigating the fen at this time of the year can be interesting since there is sometimes new deadfall or fallen trees to block the way and the possibility of a new beaver dam is always something to anticipate. Of those possibilities, only a fallen tree caused any problems today.

We were playing a bit of follow-the-leader this year since we were often stopping for a bit of photography.

There were times when following was a bit of a challenge but only because there were too many channel choices. “Which way?”

We weren’t the only ones stopping to photograph something of interest, and Dean wasn’t the only one who got to hold the camera :-).

Earlier, I mentioned that a fallen tree caused a bit of a problem. It did!. To get under the tree required a limbo style movement. The folks in the red canoe made it under the tree but got turned in the current and ended up getting rather wet. See Dean’s shot of the limbo options in his Flickr photostream. At the time, of the dunking, Graeme and I had packed our cameras away in dry bags because we were next in line to try the manoeuvre. Instead, we got to retrieve various objects floating by and got to help the now swimmers get to solid ground.

This bit of an adventure on the Jock River led to a canoe emptying demonstration that worked well and no one was hurt in the making of this blog.