Traffic jam: small fender-bender on a two-lane road, no one seemed hurt.
We had a great day on the river. Apart from the pros and a group of dutch paddlers at Haute Tension, playing in the great wave there, we had the river to ourselves! It alaways amazes me that such a wonderful river section, where beginners and pros can have fun running the SAME rapids just by chosing different lines, is not full of paddlers every weekend. It's not that far!
On top of that, the people at Bonnet Rouge might lose their right to run a business there as the land is zoned as agricultural. I understand that this the way that Quebec protects its river shores from big cheesy commercial developments, but it would be a sad loss. So I encourage everyone to paddle that river and sign the petition at Bonnet Rouge so that we can keep this very useful and comnfortable take-out place!
I have some good footage of Larry and Mikey in the Transformer. I'll need to take all these clips and assemble a best-of...
And let's give Annie the credit she deserves: she had three good rides on the Transformer, which tired her out completely... This might account for her decision to run Haute Tension and then Le Mur, both preceded by her kayak...
--C.
