Memorial Day on the Potomac
we lucked out with the weather — well OK, it’s a little hot. But blue skies and the Potomac is still cool. So it was a good day for quick trip. We met Hank (and Sally, but she was just shuttling) at lock ten, dropped a car — good job Sarah on the parking place — and headed up to Angler’s End.
Somehow we managed to get a parking spot there as well; I think I get the credit for that. After a quick bit of organizing — including remembering keys to Sarah’s car — we got the boats in the water.
Not too long after the boats were in the water, Robert was in the water. Did I mention it was still cool? I expect by August it will have warmed up to bath water temperature.
We found a wave to two to surf at Offet Island (not big waves, but surfable). Yellow falls had some nice little surfing waves; so did Stubblefield falls. Robert really enjoyed the surfing this time and the chance to help sharpen up our eddy turns. We just had a lot of fun.
After a while, I couldn’t stand it and I hopped in two. Discovering that while I could climb up the back of my Mirage — huge boat that it now seems — I can’t really do that with the canoe. Or I need more practice. It was a short swim to the shore where I could get back into the boat.
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