We left from a launch off of Highway 23 in Spring Green. This was Zack's first trip in his own kayak, but it went better than I expected. It helped that the tandem seat in Chad's kayak was filled with his folding bike used for shuttling the Jeep to the pull out location. Zack's kayak was tethered the whole time, but he still did a great job paddling on his own for a large portion of the trip.
There were many sand bars along the trip, one of which we used for a picnic lunch.
There were many river channels, and I was lucky that my phone had a signal along the route so we could check out the map before we headed down a channel that didn't go through. Near the end of the route the boys attempted to go through a small channel and got caught up. I won't begin to explain what happened, but Kevin got dumped in the water and his boat overturned. The bilge pump was finally used for it's intended purpose. I heard the stories about what happened, but will never know the truth. I was already headed down the right channel on the way to the take out when Zack came running across the sand bar to tell me what happened. Besides being wet, Kevin seemed just fine after the incident.
We pulled the kayaks out by Lone Rock, where Chad had previously placed the Jeep. After loading the kayaks we headed towards home, stopping for some food. We came across an old fashioned drive-in restaurant, Rumbleseats, in Spring Green. The food was good, and it was nice to have warm enough weather to still eat outside. We just had to be careful of the cow. It looked like a killer.
