Kayak Kamp: Dav 3

 Today we visited the Great Falls National Historic Park to meet Sperintendent Darren Boch and Ranger Ilyse Goldman. We are so thrilled that the National Park will help us celebrate our history and the importance of the Passaic River and Paterson. Here Ranger Goldman is talking to Naomi

 We then went and put into the Passaic River at the Hawthorne access. We paddled upstream about 3/4 of a mile and then back down. Here is our whole camp.

Elijah

Victoria

Joseph

Al'lena

Shyear

Tayshawn

Justice

Naomi

Mr. Eric

Dominic

Mrs E.

 As we paddled downstream we went over the fish weir just above the Fair Lawn Ave. bridge. Native Americans built this nearly 300 years ago and it is still there. They caught the fish by net or spearing them. We had lunch at the Fair Lawn access and pulled out in Elmwood Park.

Paddling under the Broadway/ Martin Luther King way/ Route 4 Bridge

All in all we had a great day paddling almost 6 miles. We picked up plastic bottles in the river to recycle as part of being caretakers of God's creation and cleaned up the area we we landed at the Elmwood Park boat launch. We  ended the day with ice cream at Guernsey Crest.