June 26 2010

Four of us went down the river on June 26 from Sangamon River Forest Preserve to my place on the Sangamon River near CR2400N. We started out at 8 and were on the river by 9. The weather was beautiful and Jeff spotted a fox and what we assume was a Cooper’s Hawk, a deer, and several blue herons. We […]

Father’s Day

I got out on the river on Father’s Day taking for what turned out to be a very short trip from my place down to Lake of the Woods. The river was over its banks in many places and was flowing fast. But there were no log jams along the way, although I did see a lot of trash in […]

Stories from the River

My son and I headed out about 12 noon from Greenwood Acres and oh man what a nice trip down. We only went to the new county park south of Fisher but what a nice float & paddle. We ran into 3 log jams that we had to get out and get around. One was after the 136 bridge and […]