Blue skies, in the 80s
With Scotty, me, Robin, Jim
Put in at TWRA at 10:46, Take out after 3:00 army Red River Canoe
Avg speed 3,5 mph, fastest speed 8.1 mphRain was predicted, but it never came (just like the last 2 days. Personally we think that the meteorologists are just publishing old west reports during the pandemic).
It’s memorial day weekend so we expected large crowds.
But what we didn’t know is that during a pandemic I’m in tort memorial day weekend the crowds are even larger than ever. I have never seen the parking lot so full. I also noticed that the red River Canoe shuttle is absolutely full of people and there was not one single mask on the customers or the employees. For reference Foggy Bottom canoe on the Harpeth River has advertised that all customers and shuttles and all the employees will be wearing masks during transactions. They also stated that they would be limiting the number of people on the shuttle buses. I did wear my mask, although I probably would have been OK as it was just the four of us in the truck and I know that Robin and Jim have been limiting their exposure. When we got to the TWR a boat ramp, once again the parking lot was full and there were a lot of people on the ramp with their boats. We were able to take our boats at a safe distance away from them down the side of the ramp and get quickly into the water So I did not feel too vulnerable. I had considered counting the number of boats and kayaks that we passed during the day but quickly realized this would’ve been an all day ordeal. I would estimate that we passed 200 individual votes. The great thing about being on the river in a kayak is that it’s very easy to social distance yourself. When we came upon a group of people, we were able to quickly Kayak passed them. Every sandbar that we passed had a group of people stopped there. Fortunately we know of a small crate that goes off the red river and we are able to paddle up there for our lunch break. It is nice to see people out in nature enjoying themselves, but in a selfish way I wish they weren’t all out there. One of the things I like about kayaking is hearing the sounds of nature, the solitude and not the radios. As usual though it was a wonderful day of kayaking, probably even more so as we have been in the house for so longMaybe one Thing that will happen as a result of the pandemic is that people will enjoy being out in nature and not in crowds as much. Time will tail.
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