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From: "Quapaw Canoe Company" <john@island63.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:42:33 -0600
To: helena<helena@island63.com>
Subject: Vikings discover Buck Island?
Quapaw Canoe Company, Helena Outpost
Founder/River Guide, John Ruskey
Winter Hours: Sat & Sun,
We will be closed this Sunday Nov 16th due to a day-long class on "Canoeing the Big River," held in conjunction with Phillips Community College U. of Arkansas. We will be closed the weekend of Nov 29/30th for the same reason (last class is an overnight, with potluck Supper on the Sandbar and a Sunday fireside brunch graduation ceremony).
Has anyone seen the BBC documentary "Steven Fry visits
Vikings discover
Report from river guide Mark Tremblay:
Quapaw Canoe Company Helena outpost was handed an awesome responsibility on Thursday the 22nd of October. Over .001% of the entire population of
—Even though the only wood in
My Icelandic brothers and sisters sang 1,000-year-old folk songs in their native tongue, songs about a woman longing for her man out at sea fishing the dangerous waters of the north. Or the whaler being lonely and thinking of his love before the ocean swell took him under. And the only American folk songs I could think of were "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and "Roll Out the Barrel."
It was a spectacular night, with deer and bobcat spottings, shooting stars, and an easy atmosphere for such different cultures to diffuse. After a still-water paddle at two in the morning and a vicious portage back to the outpost all .001% of
Anyone need to shake the early winter blues? Enter the Christmas Season with a rejuvenating ride down the Delta, along the Lower Mississippi Water Trail. Thanks to the American Land Conservancy and others, the dots in the water trail are being connected!
Low Water Tour of the
Photos & text © 2008 John Ruskey, Quapaw Canoe Company
Last Spring we departed Memphis on our "High Water Tour of the Mississippi Delta" (we thought we were on the crest, but it just kept rising & rising as we paddled south under the Memphis bridges and into the Delta -- we didn't realize just how high the water would get, and neither did the forecasters at the NOAA Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center!)
Starting Monday, Dec 1st from
1,2,3,4: Do the numbers: 1 city (
3 hundred miles of river, and 4 states (
The incredible wilderness paddling of the Mississippi Delta. The trees are taller than the casinos. With rest stops filled with live blues music & museum visits at
Leave downtown
What else can we say to get you on board? Our main goal is to bring good attention to the river, in the way only paddlers can bring. Experience leads to understanding. Understanding leads to better housekeeping. Better housekeeping means a cleaner river. A cleaner river means healthier & happier people. What else? It will clear your mind. You will enter the Christmas season refreshed with overflowing love for all. You will return home with renewed appreciation of your country, your hair tossed by the wind, your face burnished by the sun, the heart opened and your imagination set free.
(Coming March/April 2009: Annual High Water Tour)
Week One: Dec 1-7:
Dec 1 Meet & push off from Memphis (MM736)
Dec 2
Dec 3 Walnut
Dec 4
Dec 5-6, Clarksdale Friday & Saturday night blues
Visit
Dec 7, rest day, re-supply
Week Two: Dec 8-15:
Monday December 8th head out again from Quapaw Landing (MM638)
Dec 8
Dec 9 Mouth of the
Dec 10 Big
Dec 11
Dec 12 The
Dec 12-13, Friday & Saturday campfire smoked steaks
Touring & juking in the
Dec 14 rest day, re-supply
Week Three: Dec 15-19:
Monday, Dec 15, head out again from Warfield Point (MM537)
Dec 16
Dec 17 Shipland Wildlife Management Area
Dec 18
Dec 19 Mouth of the
Photos & text © 2008 John Ruskey, Quapaw Canoe Company
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