Today was the most interesting and out right different day so far on the trip; it was the the change in scenery I was asking for last night after a long day of paddling the great Yadkin. We woke up in the morning a little later then planned, but after Jenny birthday wishes, packing gear and preparing to pack up the boats once again we ended up being ahead of schedule by a half an hour; since that rarely happens, why disturb the consistency? It was then decided after packing the boats that we would visit some of the sites in Boone cave state park, that were just a short walk from our put in. We hiked to the 3rd largest cotton wood tree in North Carolina, it was so huge standing 160 feet tall and 16 feet in diameter, it took 4 people to to hug the entire thing! After the refreshing attention given to our legs we officialy took off around 9:30 AM. The paddling days short in milage, at only nine miles to our take out, but in effort it was a challenge for us all. I know at onep point I had closed my eyes for just a second and literally dozed off in the middle of taking a stroke! Along the way wildlife were out and about all around us; fisher jumping constantly, we spotted four turtles, one I named squirt because of how small he was and we also had two blue herring gliding along with the group. It was awesome to witness nature in such a wild state and just how it was ment to be seen, uninterrupted. Towards the end of our paddling day the river started to feel more and more like a lake, which ment a harder and harder time moving the boat, our speed dropped and for the moment our spirits did too, we had in the past two days paddled 50 miles, we were tired and cranky. A few words of encouragement from our sweep man, Tucker and we got back in to the grove quick. As we approached the greatly anticipated boat ramp it looked like it was snowing, white bits of fluff covered the river it seriously looked like The clouds were falling out of the sky. This was also the point when we realized we were deffinetly on the first lake, High Rock lake. We finally arrived at the boat ramp at 12:15 and quickly unloaded gear and reloaded it on to the trailer along with the boats. Link was fast too
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