Kayak Kamp: Day 5

Friday we paddled the Delaware River from 8 1/2 miles above the Delaware Water Gap.  This area is all part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and Worthington State Forest.  We have been learning how National & State parks and recreation areas belong to all of us. Also how every river is held in trust for the people of the state. In other words every river is our river!. Read more about that HERE. After dropping my car off at the gap in order to fetch the van we drove north along the Old Mine Road to the Poxono Access. It was a beautiful day and we had some current to help us along. We paddled 5 1/2 miles before we stopped on the shore for lunch. Joey's father Paul MacCracken joined us for the paddle today. 

After lunch some of the group enjoyed swimming in the river for awhile. You can see from the picture above how clear the water was.

 Here we coming out of the final big rapids headed toward the Rt. 80 bridge.  One of the attached videos shows the perspective of going through the rapids from the deck of my kayak taken from Caleb Engelhard's gopro camer.

After we got back to the beach at the gap everyone enjoyed a refreshing swim while Pastor John and Mr. Eric retrieved the van and trailer. Victoria & Elijah even swam all the way across the river to Pennsylvania and brought back some stones for us. It has been a wonderful week in every way and we are very thankful to God. When we got back to the church we had a small presentation of completion ceremony for all of our paddles and thank you's for Mrs. Englehard and Mr. Eric.  Check back next year for more on the River of God School of Paddling.