Dog River 1

Today is special for two reasons. The one I wont really go into is that Auburn's spring game is going on today. In fact, I'm watching it on espn3 as I write this post. The second is that my brother and I took an early day trip up Dog River.

We put in at Luscher Park around 10am after a short conversation with the coast guard reserve. Apparently there was going to be a high number of kayakers showing up around 2pm for the first annual 'Dog River Run' and they were making sure everyone that showed up had a life vest and whiste; two mandatory items for any kayak. 

Despite the park being right in the middle of a neighborhood, the quality scenery didn't take long to find. A couple hundred yard from the pier we came across a nice old school paddle boat replica, used as a party boat/patio. Even further down was what appeared to be some kind of drilling rig with a city of mobile seal on the sides. I'll throw in a picture of the rig b/c it was an interesting addition to the river, and even more interesting for the fact that it appeared to be an expensive piece of city property rotting away, abandoned in a river.

After a couple hours of solid paddling and finding a great spot to fish on my next visit, we started heading back towards to park. As is usually the case, the wind decided to change directions and required we paddle against the waves. Our take out time was around 1:30 giving us ample time to make it home for this spring game (which just ended, perfect timing). All in all, a really nice trip. There were a number of directions we were unable to explore so we'll definitely make our way out here again in the near future.

Oh, The video quality for this trip should be better than those previously posted. I ended up getting a new cell phone that takes HD video...
Winning!