I had a rough trip down the river yesterday, it's been a few years since I've made the 5 hour trip with a tube. Water was very COLD,made it past the first couple of small rapids just fine
cooler still full of beer. That's when things got a bit scary, just before you pass under the highway bridge there is a big bend in the river,it gets very shallow in this spot. When everyone starts to yell ass up...that means get your ass up!! I was trying to make myself as stiff as a board, got turned sideways. ..smack smack another rock sliced my tube. That's when I hit a huge rock in the small of my back (very sore) jumped on the tube with the wife, five minutes later SAME THING HAPPENS! except this time I lost my wedding ring trying to get my wife out of the water.
We finally made it under the bridge, easy floating from there. It was already getting late in the evening, had started to hear sirens and seen the sheriff's office air boat go flying by us. When we made it to the end we had to drive back to the beginning to get my jeep. That's when we seen search and rescue at the bridge, turns out a 30 year old man drown about 10 minutes after we went under the bridge. It's very sad for his family. This river usually claims a couple lives every year, people always underestimate how powerful a flowing river can be, even if it's only a couple feet deep.
I just wanted to share my river trip with you guys, I'm going to go lay down on the couch and try to heal before work tomorrow.