Canoeing

Last weekend for Mon Amour and I was completely void of obligations (minus the on going obligation of homework, which simply must be ignored sometimes) and the weather was lovely, so we decided to go to a nearby state park and do some canoeing!

The weather was pretty much perfect for canoeing. Warm but not hot, and a little bit overcast - which made for minimal squinting, and lots of cool reflections.

Some parts of the river have a very "lagoon-y" feel. (with cool reflections of course)

Some parts of the river are pretty nearly blocked - for this particular one you had to go straight through the leafy branch part on the far right.

This was just a fabulous reflection.

I like how the sky in this one actually looks more blue in the reflection than it does in the sky.

We saw lots of wildlife - mostly turtles. They were hanging out on branches all over the place.

This one let us get real close before it slipped into the water.

Randomly, along the river, there is this weird abandoned industrial something or other. It looks really sketchy. I am guessing the machines used to pump water out of the river - rather than pumping junk into the river. But really, its all speculation, I have no idea what this stuff is for.

Slightly more adorable than the large quantities of turtles - was this little baby deer that we saw! He was really hidden, you could really only see him because he moved, which meant that taking a still photo made him really hard to see! I have highlighted him here though, so you cant miss him. Isn't he cute?

These were also cute - baby geese! There were lots of goose-families swimming around. They babies were obviously not new borns, cause they were rather sizeable, but they were still really fuzzy and adorable.

It was a wonderfully relaxing morning - which we wrapped up by stopping to get snow cones! Yummy. All in all, a lovely adventure.