Kayking Trip

After getting up at the crack of dawn on Saturday we trucked it up to Grantsburg for some kayaking action. Brad, Amy, Cody, Jeff, and I all were in for the adventure. Before we even got into Wisconsin a bear crossed the road right in front of us. So the theme of the trip was how many different animals can we see. In all we saw wood ducks, trumpeter swans, eagles, otters, turtles, bear, hawk, herons and probably a couple others that I cannot recall.

We ended up kayaking about 17 miles on Saturday and about 10 on Sunday. The paddling was pretty uneventful on Saturday. Brad took a little swim not on purpose but that was about it. We claimed our campsite, one which I've been to before, it's off the beaten path a bit and we were happy to see it was empty.

Sunday's paddling involved a lot of rapids which was a nice change of pace. Especially since past years there hasn't been enough water in the river to paddle on much less have rapids. It was nice not having to get out of the boat ever. We had our lunch at the Old Paint Mine and it wasn't much later that we were pulling out of the river and on the way home.