civilized ku # 547-49 ~ canoeing
Monday, June 28, 2010 at 10:46AM 
Canoe car • click to embiggen
Wilmington Beach • click to embiggen
Hugo and the wife • click to embiggen
Weekend weather forecasts called for a sunny Sunday but that didn't happen. However, it turned out to be warm without any rain - at least it was so in Wilmington at the beach on the West Branch of the Au Sable.
So Hugo got a chance to make a couple of paddling trips up and down the river. As he demonstrated late last summer, even though he has never had a zot of paddling instruction other than how to hold a double-bladed paddle, he just gets in the boat and goes with a rather amazingly intuitive sense of hull/paddle/water dynamics. Quite impressive for a 5 year old.
FYI, in the above Wilmington Beach picture, that's Hugo and the wife in the distance returning from an up-river paddle.
Reader Comments (1)
Hugo told me he wants to paddle his own canoe on our upcoming camping trip. When I told him it would be 7 miles, he said, "that's ok."