Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Day #2 of paddling with Paul Ferguson
We put-in in Peletier at the foot of a dirt road off Pettiford Road on Pettiford Creek. We paddled upstream under 58 and past Star Hill golf course and subdivision. This is through marshes and past mosquito channels cut by WPA years ago.
The river narrows and red cedars appear in gross forms and shapes. One we call the Dragon. Croatan National Forest is on our left and the newly acquired public land, by the Coastal Land Trust,926 acres is on our right
We arrived at the beaver dams at high water so we cruised over all the small ones. We pulled our boats over the larger ones.
We immediately came into a beautiful garden of pure white water lillies.
We also came upon some button flower bushes.
This next is Missy clibing ovr a beaver dam.
This is Missy chuting down over a beaver dam.
This is Missy's son, Stephen, doing the same.
We ate lunch at the large beaverlodge. It is between 40 and 50 feet in diameter and five feet high. After lunch we pushed further upstream and came uopon another equally large beaver lodge.
Shortly after that we had to give up and turn back downstream according to Gary. Gary opened up the beaver dams on the reurn trip for us so we could shoot down over them by paddling fast and getting a whte water thrill.
We saw many more wild flowers and large ferns and palmettos. The broken thruogh dam is always an interesting place with the island in the middle. There is supposed to be another old dam upstream but we never have found it.
When we get very high water again we are gong to put in at Millis Road and come down.(In the day time this time!). Elmer
We had a most enjoyable trip. Tis is one of our favorite rivers.We got back to the ramp at three as planned.
Participants were: Paul Ferguson,from Raleigh, Missy Tenet and her son, Stephen, from Oriental, Gary Scruggs from Newport and Elmer Eddy form Swansboro.
The river narrows and red cedars appear in gross forms and shapes. One we call the Dragon. Croatan National Forest is on our left and the newly acquired public land, by the Coastal Land Trust,926 acres is on our right
We arrived at the beaver dams at high water so we cruised over all the small ones. We pulled our boats over the larger ones.
We immediately came into a beautiful garden of pure white water lillies.
We also came upon some button flower bushes.
This next is Missy clibing ovr a beaver dam.
This is Missy chuting down over a beaver dam.
This is Missy's son, Stephen, doing the same.
We ate lunch at the large beaverlodge. It is between 40 and 50 feet in diameter and five feet high. After lunch we pushed further upstream and came uopon another equally large beaver lodge.
Shortly after that we had to give up and turn back downstream according to Gary. Gary opened up the beaver dams on the reurn trip for us so we could shoot down over them by paddling fast and getting a whte water thrill.
We saw many more wild flowers and large ferns and palmettos. The broken thruogh dam is always an interesting place with the island in the middle. There is supposed to be another old dam upstream but we never have found it.
When we get very high water again we are gong to put in at Millis Road and come down.(In the day time this time!). Elmer
We had a most enjoyable trip. Tis is one of our favorite rivers.We got back to the ramp at three as planned.
Participants were: Paul Ferguson,from Raleigh, Missy Tenet and her son, Stephen, from Oriental, Gary Scruggs from Newport and Elmer Eddy form Swansboro.
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