East River

Aug 22nd 2010
Map

After an aborted trip on the 21st due to bad weather we got up bright and early (again) and left the boat ramp at sun-up for a trip across the bay, up "East River", past "Butcher Pen Landing" & "Fanny Lake" and back down the Apalachicola River.

That time of morning is fantastic to be out on the water - definitely recommend it. Some of the early pictures we took don't show how dark it was as the camera auto-adjusted but you can make it out when I turned towards the sunrise.

When we stopped at "Sam's Cutoff" to check the map, we had a reliability issue with my ski not restarting. It was a bit of a worry as it nearly resulted in our second aborted trip in succession (and a tow home for me from Dawn's ski) but after about 30 yards of towing I retried my ski and it started right up - so we disconnected the rope, turned around and headed "up river".