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Another weekend of life has passed. As a full time working person, I've started to believe it is what one does with his/her weekend that defines ones life. As most, if not all of you know by now, me and my playmate Dot love to go out kayaking. The kayak is almost secondary to our prime love . . nature. We both love to get out into the woods and wild places. Kayaking allows us to do just that. I know we have been in places relatively few people have ever seen.  And for a bonus we can photograph and video those places for those of you who can't get out there, for whatever reason. I cannot tell you the number of times that people have told me they are living life vicariously through my photographs, and now our videos. But again, I cannot tell you the number of times that Dot and I have said, these pictures might come out pretty but they will never ever be the same as actually being here. And that is where the videos we take are a blessing to us. The photos are nice, but the videos really tend to bring back the moment. And now with the state of advanced technology we live in, we are able to share our videos with y'all. Ten years ago, five years ago, this wouldn't have been possible. At least not for free. Now, the videos you see here on my website are by the graces of two companies. The first is VEOH which allows one to post videos of any size onto their website. The second is DivX which allows me to convert our 'raw' videos into a format that can be used by VEOH and a size my dial-up service can handle. And all that for free. Almost hard to imagine in today's world. 

It is a good time to be alive.

This first video is of my friend Pete Dunmyer flying his new stunt kite. The kite has a wingspan of 7 feet 11 inches and a height of 3 feet 8 inches. He did good until about his 4th flight. Then he has a really hard landing that busted one of the graphite spars. Kites nowadays are made from rip-stop nylon and graphite rods or spars.

Remember . . to play the video . . left click on the white triangle . . twice.

The St. Mary's River is extremely low. These were two of the 'showstoppers' we had to get over, the log across the water in the background and the other log nearer to the camera. We did a LOT of walking on this outing. It got to where Dot and I were taking turns giving each other a 'ride' through the shallows.

Quite a few times though, we both had to get out of the kayak.

Here is a better idea of just how low the water was.

This whole stretch was a long walk.

And then were the downed trees we had to get over.

All in all, this was a very strenuous trip. We covered about 5 miles and easily over half that was walking in the river. Darned good exercise though.

Obviously, the low water didn't 'hurt' the scenery one darned bit.

But it sure was low.

Taking a breather.

The flowers are of Muscatine grapes we are pretty sure. The 'butterfly' has the markings of a moth of some kind. See the curled up 'thingy' at the head of the critter? That is its tongue as you will see from the next photo. 

Pretty neat, huh? 

Needless to say, we are looking forward to some rain to fill up the river.

Jeezel, was it LOW !!

Thanks for joining us on this outing on a very low water, St. Mary's River.

Enjoy !!

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