Brie, Grace, and I looked at fossils for a little while...
After throwing rocks in the water, looking for fossils, and running around Ben, Caleb, and Brie crossed the river and were messing around on the other side. I never did find out what exactly they were doing. :)
Grace and I stayed a while longer looking for fossils, but then became bored also. Grace wanted to cross here to go over with the other guys but I told her no. So it ended up we all gathered on the east side of the rock 'bar' to cross over onto the sand bar.
And so the journey began!
Brie and Grace writing/drawing in the sand.
Caleb splashing around in the water. If you watch closely you will observe that for the most part at the beginning of our walk we try to keep our clothes OUT of the water. But after a while we just gave up trying to keep them dry.
The view was amazing!
But some people (not mentioning names) kept getting in those perfect pictures!
Brie was doing this for you, Nate.
I told them to gather to take a group picture for you.
The result
(if you can, zoom in on their faces)
All done!
Notice the big brown spot on Brie? She was trying to jump across some water, but unfortunately, Ben was in the way and she slipped and fell right into the mud.
Ben found the top of a post and threw it into the water...
Right by Caleb :)
Being goofy
We could not figure out what this was (we thought maybe a worm), until a little later I realized it was someone dragging a stick. Elementary, my dear Watson.
The sand was actually pretty hard. Some places were muddy or soft. :)
A fallen tree
I told them to all get on it and do something funny for you.
Here is what they came up with.
A dirt crusted flower
Grace with a turkey feather in her hair.
The water was at the most two feet deep where we walked. Some places got deeper but we stayed out of those. :)
A huge sand bar
Here there was no sand bar and the rocks were sharp and slippery.
On our way back we walked in the water.
Just around the bend you can see a bridge. We had followed the river all the way to Lewis! Which was about 2 miles down (or is it up??) river.
As we were walking along the sand bar we came across an interesting find. A turtle shell in a black trash bag. YUCK!
Almost to the bridge!!
This was probably the deepest water we walked in. It was a little unnerving!
Under the bridge
I am not sure what these were. Maybe birds' nests?
Going up the river bank to see where we were. :)
Another one just for you, Nate
We all got up on top of the bridge and walked around or rested.
Looking over the part we just walked over.
Now, who is supposed to be watching these children???
A story...
The boys had gone down under the bridge and it was just us girls up top. Well, we had been saying it would be bad if a car came along and saw us up there all wet, disheveled, and no guys around. A car did come. There was no time to run so we just stood off to the side, smiled and waved. How embarrassing!
Worn out and wet
The sand under the bridge was really soft. :)
Heading back
Two sticks
Grace was a trooper! She was tired of walking but we could hear thunder in the distance so we thought it would be a good idea to head back. Being that a lot of water comes down this river when it rains anywhere upstream.
Don't fall in!
Again, WHO is supposed to be watching them??
(unfortunately, ME. :) )
Ben
Caleb
Ben found a tire along the river bank and rolled it into the water saying he was 'driving a car'.
'What is THAT??'
We can only imagine what the individual did when he saw theses tracks.
Towards the end of our trek I figured I should have some picture with me in it. So I decided to take a group picture of us all (sorry, it focused on the ground).
Almost back to the rock cut!
Being goofy
Another group picture (Brie is beside me)
Port in sight!
Arrived!
It you look just past Caleb's shadow you can see what looks like the end of the sand bar, but it really was just a dip in it (about three feet deep). To cross you jumped from the sand to the slanted rock (about a three foot jump) just in front and a little to the right of Caleb. Well when I was jumping across with the camera in hand (where were my brains??) I slipped and fell into the water. Believe it or not the camera barely got wet, but I sure did!
I hope you enjoyed the trip with us. :)
Jesus',
Abi
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