The river was high so we had a pretty good current. We didn't have to paddle, but our friends paddled a bunch, which meant I had to paddle in order to keep up. Every so often we came to an island in the middle of the river. We were told to stay to the left of each island in order to avoid the bigger rapids. I did fine on the first island, but by the second Emily and I were completely backwards. When Shawn just yelled "reverse" at us, I laughed. Umm, say what? Luckily, I was able to figure it out, but that wasn't super fun. About 1/2 way through the trip, we stopped on the shore for a few pics. That's when the rain started. We quickly got back in our kayaks and it poured on us for a good 30 minutes. So now we were soaked. I guess it was better than being hot!?
All was well and we were really close to our final destination when we came upon the final island. Because the water was so high, there was only some tall grass above the water. Em and I ended up going through the grass due to my poor paddling skills and before I knew it our kayak was covered with hundreds of spiders that decided to jump from the grass and take refuge in our boat. I'm not even exaggerating how many spiders there were. Emily and I immediately started screaming and before long Em was in tears. I actually considered jumping in the river at this point. But instead I just started tepping on as many as I could with my shoes and hitting others with the paddle. I'm not sure I will ever get this picture of all the spiders out of my head. Em and I couldn't wait to get off the kayak at the end!
It's unfortunate the spider incident happened because up until then it was fun. But after that, I can definitely say that I have no desire to go kayaking on a river any time soon.
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