Day 7

Easter Sunday! A very relaxing day. We woke up at our usual 8:30, I made some instant oatmeal for breakfast and then we hit the river by 10:30. The current was racing in the morning. The sun was shinning, it was a beautiful day so we decided not to paddle for a couple of hours and just enjoy the view. I even took off my shirt, hoping for a tan but ending up getting pretty badly sun burned. I didn't really think that one through! Once the current slowed down and we decided to start paddling the day turned pretty average. About a mile before our campsite we stopped and filled up our water bottles at Estiffanulga County Park (try saying that five times fast). At the park we met a guy who, after we told him what we were doing, gave us the usual "ya'll are crazy" response. Alex asked him for some fishing advice on the river and then we headed off to camp. When we got to the sandbar that we were camping at, there was a family already set up about a hundred yards away from us. With nothing else to do Alex and I walked over and met everyone. We talked to them for five minutes and all of a sudden the same guy we met earlier walks up. He was the uncle of the family. For the next hour we sat and exchanged stories about the river. When the family finally had to pack up and go home, Alex and I went back to our kayaks and set up camp. Too tired to cook dinner, we each ate a cliff bar and went to bed.