Some days it really seems all clear, how blessed is this life I am living. To feel so rich with love, life, and true happiness is all a man could ever hope, want, and dream of. Trey and I had a great time paddling around the mouth of Whites Creek this afternoon. There is alot of wildlife around this area. We saw Ducks, A Blue Heron, One Big Fish jump in front of the boat, and a Great American Bald Eagle flew up over our heads, landed in a tree and just watched us look up in awe at what a beautiful noble creature God has bestowed upon us.
Not too bad of shots considering I was floating in a kayak with Trey in my lap and the camera zoomed in all the way to 32x. He grew bored of posing for me after awhile and went about his scouting the area out.
Here he is checking us out, Trey said "he's not flying away because he's Brave!"
A nice begining to the fall colors that will be draping our landscape and whispering our names, with the southern fading sun warming and glistening through the forest canopy calling us out to nature to enjoy this changing of seasons. A great time to plan for some hiking trips in the near future.
Two adventurers out in the wild. We went up this little lagoon that was only 25 ft. wide and 1 ft. deep thinking we would see some land dwelling animals but none let themselves be known to us. So we took a photo break
CHEESE!
We were checking out a little island here at the bottom of the last little ripple of gradient Whites Creek dishes out before sucumbing to the coal ash affected Watts Bar lake:<( but the path was too grown up with holley bush and briars to get anywhere to explore.
The fresh rainwater from Millstone Mountain watershed made the creek much colder on our wet feet than the lake 100 or so yards downstream. It was a refreshing cold feel.
Trey was pulling the kayak off the rocks so we could set off downstream again
"Having a good time Dad!" this is around the time when he told me also that " I love going kayaking dad, this is the Greatest Day Of My Life" I smiled, and promised there will be many more to come.
This is a nice spot to hang around and watch the sunset, we've also had a pic-nic here once before....
or act like a monkey.....thanks for catching that one Trey!
What a day, but so will be another to come in the morning light so, who knows which way the path goes or river flows.... I'm right here where I need to be.
