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December 17, 2006.
Sunday,
December 17, 2006. From White Bank Park in Colonial Heights, Virginia,
I paddled down Swift Creek in the dark under a sliver of moon and into the Appomattox River
just as the water began to
reflect the early
morning sky. As I've said before, I like to do my flat-water
paddling at sunrise or sunset because that's when you get the best photo
opportunities and see the most wildlife. My paddle lasted for three hours and took me North
along the Eastern side of the river to
Interstate 295,
then back along a slightly different and more Western path. I saw one deer, two
beavers, a handful of herons,
hundreds of
geese,
thousands of gulls and picked up some fresh mistletoe when I stopped to
stretch my legs. My Dagger Element 11.2 was off the water and back on the
truck by 9:30AM.
May 14, 2006. Notes and photos on the Swift Creek page.