A pretty little creek borders our farm and winds through the forest on it's path down stream to a river. Last night and today we received a fair bit of rain, so from our house you can easily hear the roar of the creek.
While going out to run errands today, Mary and I saw some vehicles and kayakers parked near the bottom of our driveway, so we went and talked to them. We often see kayakers in the area, but not at the bottom of our driveway.
It turns out that this group of kayakers came up from Chattanooga so that they could kayak the creek from our property down to the river, there is a nice parking area at the river where people often park to fish or kayak.
The group told us that they discovered this route and first kayaked it last year, and that it was a class 4+ rapids under these conditions.
These are some seriously skilled kayakers, and they were all friendly, happy, and having a great adventure.
Just upstream from us the Emory river becomes the Obed wild and scenic national park, and it is also popular with kayakers.
One of them posted this video online of them kayaking the creek:
https://vimeo.com/264891306
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