This image is from the GoPro on the nose of my kayak, today. I paddled up the creek to an old dam to check out the flow. I knew before I headed upstream that the creek was high, because it was low tide and the water level was at least 6 inches too high. I suppose I could have found somewhere to sink, but it would have been a really short party, because as soon as the tide started to come in, all the water going downstream would meet the rising tide and the level of the creek would rise so fast you could watch it come up. Just imagine you’re in a pipe and the water is gushing in from both ends. You get the idea.
I’m holding out hope that the water flow will drop off before Sunday afternoon. I’ll probably check it, tomorrow, but I don’t expect the flow to drop much in 24 hours. The ground is really saturated with all the rain we’ve had, and we might be getting more. According to the rain gauge at my house, we’ve gotten 4.2 inches in the past 5 days. The ground was already pretty wet from 1.7″ we got last week.
I went out to do a video in the rain, the other day, and it stopped raining! I put on latex briefs and assembled some gear so I could hang by my ankles in the woods, while the rain streamed over my body. I decided to make the video, in spite of not having rain. It might have turned out well, if it hadn’t been so dark in the woods. The GoPro video quality is very poor in low light, as you can see by these stills. I was glistening with sweat, so I didn’t really need rain. I wouldn’t mind doing this as many times as it took to get it right, but after I’ve been hanging upside down for a while, it takes hours before my head and my stomach feel normal again.