April 20, 2008
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Many delightful adventures await those of us who are smart enough to make our home here in God's Country, the Ozark hills...
but one of the most wonderful of all is a springtime float trip on the Buffalo River.
The entire 150-mile length of the Buffalo is a National River - owned by the National Park Service. It's a free-running stream..no dams. No commercial activity - no docks, no homes along its edges, no motor boats. Just kayaks, canoes, small flat-bottomed fishing boats. And happy people drinking in the April sunshine, the fresh breeze, the stunning bluffs along the river. I wish you could have gone along with us. I always think that what we are seeing is just what the Indians saw hundreds of years before us. Spring woods full of dogwood. Eagles floating on the thermals. Turtles sunning on logs. A beaver family watching us from their lodge under a bluff. Scissortail flycatchers. Hawks. Blue sky reflecting in the river.
I'd like to share some of my favorite photos from the float we (Doyle, his daughter Erika and her fiance' Mike from south Florida) made yesterday from Tyler Bend to Gilbert. I'll put one below, and later put up a web album on the top right-hand corner of this page.
Comments (7)
It's so beautiful, how amazingly peaceful it must have been. I'd want to float down it for hours. Hope all is well, Love, Gerrie
Looks like great fun. For a number of years, my best bud and I would take a canoe down a particular stretch of the Susquehanna River -- fishing, talking, enjoying the river. But we've lost that regular event the last few years. Your photo reminds me of it. How cool.
You don't know me, (I left Hillcrest in '01), but I still miss the BEAUTY of the Ozarks! Thanks for sharing a little of it. (:
Quite the enticing adventure. Looking forward to the album. The closest we come to that in the area of Texas I live in, is when we get those really heavy rainstorms, there's a street several blocks away that resembles a shallow river. It's very fun to drive a car through. Well, the ones that don't have low tail pipes!
Very cool.
The Buffalo river and around look like a haevenly place offering to you the show of the prime nature . I understand what you feel being there .
I feel that when I go in places still unknown of most of the people .
Thank you Celia for sharing .
Love
Michel
Many times I have thought about visiting the Ozarks... and certainly I would love to make a stop and your place and the Buffalo River!!