We sure hope you enjoyed the trip! And now it is time to go...
This is Kermit's Spanish River crew at Agnew Lake Lodge, the completion of our 1995 trip. Ms Piggy is dried out and ready to go again.
Looking down on our campsite at Pogomassing Creek. This site is back from the river and sees little use. The hillside is full of blueberries by August and the creek below is wonderful for cooling off. We were fortunate enough to meet two local young men who were pleased to share their catch with us for dinner. We cooked the Smallmouth Bass and provided potatoes au Gratin with strawberry cheesecake for dessert. YUMMMMM!
The clean cool water of Pogomassing Creek flows past the campsite. The babbling sound lulled us to sleep that night.
The picture says it all!
These blueberries went into the pancake mix for breakfast.
The scenery along Pogomassing Creek is oustanding, like these guys on the rocks
We scouted these rapids before paddling. You can see the gear is in the canoe and Ms Piggy and Baby Kerm are on either end. What can't be seen is the gear somebody lost a few days earlier caught on a rock.
Lunch at the Elbow.
The Spanish has Smallmouth Bass, Walleyed Pike and Northern Pike.
I think this was a part of Graveyard Rapids. Not all of Graveyard can be paddled.
Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but I think this dinosaurer head is also at Graveyard Rapids.
Loading or unloading for a portage.
And here is one we portaged. There is a rowboat wrapped on the rocks in the very center. That is what is bunching up the water.
We sort of got suckered into this run down cedar rapids. Only my boat stayed upright. (That's me in the brown hat. Suckered? We weren't sure where we were and the boats ahead of us ran them. They also upset loosing much gear. We lost a few fishing rods but the foodbuckets and dry bags protected the essentials
Rivers like this can do damage to the unwary canoeist, and their canoes.
Here we are drying out gear that wasn't in dry bags. The sleeping pads aren't protected because they absorb very little water and dry quickly. See Packing to keep Things Dry on the Tips page for more details.
Walleye for dinner anyone?
Gorp takes the edge off our appetites until dinner.
This spot on a sand bar at river level kept the mosquitos at bay.
Behind me is Eagle Rock. This prominent landmark is at the entrance to Agnew Lake. It is all flatwater paddling from here.
Kermit met with a slight accident. "Doc" wanted to aputate but I think he had a frog leg dinner in mind.
Our last camp is across from Eagle Rock. The weather was clearing as we arrived. We watched hornets catching biting flies under the dining tarp. They grabbed them, stripped their wings, and flew away. We didn't like either one so we didn't know whether to chear or not.
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