After my earlier trips down the Ohio River in 2012 and Wabash River in 2013, the plan this year was to explore Southern Indiana’s Blue River by kayak from its source to the mouth.
That proved to be a challenge, but one well worth the effort.
It began early on the Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend heading off in search of the source of the river with a longtime friend, John Hughes. We traveled to the towns of Blue River and Daisy Hill, which are separated by a small bridge over the river, which is little more than a stream or creek at this point. The source of this branch of the river appeared to be on private property, so we abandoned our quest.
After participating in the Steamboat Days parade in Jeffersonville, we set off to Milltown, a town of roughly
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This part of the adventure was the most challenging, but following the spring rains it is considered the most fun for enthusiasts.
Canoeing on trips below Milltown for those who want a nice day trip is the choice of many.
After a catfish dinner at the Overlook Restaurant in Leavenworth and a restful night of sleep, we set off the next day to White Cloud where there is a public access site at the Blue River chapel. The river is deeper and the water slows as it moves closer to the Ohio River.
Another access point is called the “old iron bridge” and provides an easy launch into deep, slow moving water for the remainder of the journey to the mouth of the Blue River as it flows into the confluence of the Ohio River. There is equally easy access from there to take out at the DNR ramp, which is used by many boaters enjoying both
As I looked out the window of the restaurant, I could see the sun bouncing off the sparkling water below. Boats and other water craft scatter the water as well as people on water-skis and inner tubes. The picturesque view makes life seem so much better and just looking at the river makes a person calmer. The scene just described is the view from the window of a restaurant called Sophia in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the corresponding river is the mighty Mississippi. Although Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes, this scene could be found right here in the valley of Phoenix. The way this is possible is through the Rio Salado Project.
On Monday 5th of July we went and conducted a survey of the river Alyn
Contemporary writer, John M Barry, in his passage from Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, seeks to communicate the extraordinarily perplexing river that has a life of it’s own. Barry illustrates the incomprehensibility and lifelikeness of the Mississippi, and how that makes it so alluring, by establishing it as far superior to all other rivers.
The importance of this building and club is not just a landmark to the community, but is also a landmark of the period of the time in which it was built. It shows The Progressive Era’s movement to be healthy, and outdoors, and to be social with one another in the midst of city conditions says the Ohio Historical Association (Smith A6). Consideration for this honorary title was also due to it being one of the only standing canoe clubs in the United States that was originally a canoe club and continues to be so
Follow The River by James Alexander Thom is about Mary Ingles gruesome but yet courageous tale of her remarkable 1,000 mile journey home after she had escaped form the captivity of the Shawnee Indians. Through Mary Ingles hard work and determination she proved that all obstacles big and small can be overcome.
...s cool all year round. Park goers have the opportunity to hike and climb around the ledges and explore the caverns (“Ritchie Ledges”). While the natural beauty of this park is the main attraction, the man made attractions should not be overlooked. The Ohio Erie Canal Towpath is the man made attraction that offers the most recreation to park goers. This trail follows the exact path of the historic Erie Canal. People have the ability to walk, run, cross country ski and bike on this trail (“Ohio Erie Canal Towpath”).
seem to be four or five stops along the river that except for one little detail,
The short story Big Two-Hearted River, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a piece that has drawn much literary attention due to its complex utilization of detail in brief simple sentences. With these factors Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River is able to have an abundance of critical expositions throughout the story, which shows the passion that Hemingway possesses for concise sentences. Most of the criticism for Hemingway’s River comes from the grave themes alluding to the war and the catastrophic events that harmed Nick’s mental and spiritual state. This somber theme becomes evident throughout the text especially when Nick returns to his hometown. The sentence describing the town as “nothing but the rails and the burned-over country,” makes the many dark themes apparent and shows why critics focus on these dark themes of physical and mental devastation. Despite the numerous somber critiques throughout Hemingway’s text there is ultimately a positive sensation in this story as a broken man endeavors to heal himself by returning home to nature to find and do what he loves.
My first view of the river makes me breathless. Shallow water washes over the road’s cement pavement. Men, women, and kids break the river’s flow; some sit in fold-up chairs and read a book, but most
An ancient game trail once followed Hospital Creek. Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga, on his 1808 Tulare Township exploration, followed this track from the hills. When they reached the river, Moraga’s party camped before they forded the stream to explore the eastern plain. Moraga, with Fray José Viader, returned two years later. Again, they camped on the same dry, high ground.
Can you imagine having to leave everything you have ever known to live in a country on the verge of war? Lesley Shelby, the main character in One More River by Lynn Reid Banks, knows exactly how it feels. This Jewish Canadian girl has to emigrate to Israel with her family. Through the determination and courage of one person we see how challenges, complications, and differences of the world are overcome.
Buckeye Lake is a very important place to a lot of people in central Ohio. After the Ohio Canal was shut down in 1894 the lake became a state park, with the lake itself covering 4000 acres and having thirty miles of shoreline (Buckeye Lake, para. 12). The lake became a vacation spot for families across central Ohio, looking for a day or weekend of leisure, earning it the nickname “Playground of Ohio”, a place close to home where they could swim and play in the water. It became even more popular when cottages, hotels, businesses, and even an amusement park starting popping up along the banks of the
The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line - that was the woods on t'other side; you couldn't make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river softened up away off, and warn't black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away-trading-scows, and such things; and long black streaks-rafts ... and by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way; and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up.
WEATHERFORD, G.D. BROWN, F.L,. (1986) New Courses For The Colorado River, Albuquerque, N.M., pp. 25 3.
I walk along the worn trail that leads towards a popular fishing spot at the Chattahoochee, a broad boulder looking over the river. I feel rejuvenated, away from my busy life, away from school, away from all the happenings of the world. I settle myself and my belongings. My parents have come along, too, to watch the moment the first fish a member of our family has ever caught flies out of the water. Once I’ve gotten myself comfortable, I hook a minnow onto my line and cast it across the sparkling water of