Last day of Cold Water Kayaking this Year: Z-DAM!

December 27, 2005

After enjoying a great Christmas-Family-Time and scrambling
to find Malaria drugs that won’t kill my Typhoid drugs, it was time to
go boating! Fortunately, my friend-and rockin’ whitewater photographer-James
was up for the drive down to Richmond to join me. The air temperature
was great, but the water is still REALLY cold: like around 37 degrees.
Most rides resulted in horrible brain-freezes, and therefore lots of screaming,
but the hole was awesome. James was hitting loops like I’ve never seen
him do before in his Super Star. I had fun working lots of moves in my
All Star. There’s a HUGE tree that’s now hanging from the dam right next
to the hole, which we climbed-up to shoot some photos. The 2 shots of
James were shot by me, the credit for the good ones goes to James Sneeringer.

Live from an airplane on the way to Atlanta–our staging
ground for the Jackson Kayak Africa Excursion,

Stephen Wright