Day 6

Back in the groove again. After two straight days of rough waters (literally and metaphorically speaking), things seem to be going well again. This morning we followed our normal trend of waking up at 8 and not being able to get on to the river until 10:30. At this point it's a bit astonishing that we haven't been able to quicken our packing process but it doesn't seem to be hurting us. For the first time in the whole trip it rained! As we were getting onto the river this morning we got all of our rain gear out. We were ready to weather the storm. We were greatly shocked when after 30 min of rain and only 10 min of anything substantial, the rain passed. For the next hour and throughout parts of the day there was a light overcast that kept us cool.  The wind didn't help in this regard seeing as there was none (causing the amount of bugs present to be almost unbearable). In the late afternoon we were met by a very welcome visitor, Alex's dad. He came bearing gifts of pizza and Gatorade which we very quickly demolished, expressing much gratitude in-between mouthfuls.  He also brought spare water, extra snack food, a spare phone (sent by my kind twin sister McKenzie) to temporarily replace my broken one, and even chocolate chip cookies made by our mothers. Nothing could have made Alex and I any happier than the things that we received. We said goodbye to Mr. O'Shaughnessey around 4 and kept heading down the Apalachicola River in search of our next camp site. It took us around 6 miles to find it. This spot has one of the coolest views we've had so far. Once we set up camp I had enough time to take a much needed bath in the river. I couldn't believe how refreshing the cold water was after days of not being able to wash off. We ended the day today with around 83 miles left in the trip so hopefully we can knock off a few more of those miles tomorrow!