Colorado River Happenings

It started out so wonderful. We got put into the water below the Hoover Dam and found the wonderful hot spring in the picture you saw. When you put your back against the rocks in some spots it was so hot you could have burnt yourself. I could have stayed in that hot spring all day. Would have been better without clothes or a swim suit. Then when we finally left there I got into the canoe and Doug was going to get in and push us out and he flipped the canoe and our $400.00 camera is now shot. After we get that all back together we go a little father down and saw 5 awesome mountain sheep. How they can walk on those steep slopes is amazing. I wanted so bad to take their pictures but no camera. I took some with my phone but they did not turn out, to far away. So anyway this was an unguided trip, we did not wanted a guided one. It was so beautiful. You could see to the bottom of the river the fish were jumping it was awesome. Doug was so impressed by the jumping of the fish. He grew up in the city and this was new to him. We tried to feed them some bread but yeah guess it was not good enough they like the natural stuff. The water was 54 degrees. They told us that before we left and that if the boat should flip leave it and worry about ourselves. Then the wind started to pic up which made it had to paddle. Paddling against the wind is not fun. We stopped at a few little spots to enjoy the view and eat the lunch we packed. One little lone duck joined us for lunch so we feed her too. After this there was nothing but straight up rock and the wind kept picking up. Finally a good storm blew in. Even I was worried. Doug was Like this is not safe. We paddled over to the rock and we were going to try and hold onto some brush sticking out but it had huge thorns sticking out of it. The waves were 2 and a half feet and wind were forty mile an hour they told us. When we finally did make it back they were getting ready to send the rangers for us. They said we should be on TV for making it back in a canoe. They said there were people with guides in kayaks flipping over and they were tying them together to keep every one safe. Here is one of my burns after it popped a few days later from my sun burn.