Catawba River Paddle

March 2003

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March 22, Day 1 at the put in below the Lake Wylie Dam:

 

Looking back toward the Wylie Dam just after starting:

 

An eagle (?) soars against the pure blue sky:

Trestles along the Catawba above Landsford:

    

The camp-site at the end of day 1, just past Landsford:

     

Day 2 - A dock wrapped around a highway abutment:

 

The takeout at the end of Fishing Creek Reservoir:

    

The Dearborn Dam at the put-in that leads to Lake Wateree:

      

Lake Wateree:

   

Lake Wateree State Park & Mr. Foster & friends:

            

Day 3 - Lake Wateree:

       

The Wateree Dam:

Mr. Hoffman who gave me a ride around the Wateree Dam:

 

The dam at the bottom of Lake Wateree:

The scary hunting camp on the 3rd night:

   

An early start after a sleepless 3rd night:

   

 

 

 

 

Day 4 - Sights along the Wateree River between the dam & Camden:

        

Met a fellow paddler, Kurt Cookie at the Hwy. 76 landing:

    

Pushing for Treszevants Landing, passing a huge factory:

 

Just after the factory, this scary log jammed trestle:

    

Steep bluffs along the lower Wateree:

 

An old man and his dog tied up in the flooded Wateree:

 

The juncture of the Wateree and the Congaree Rivers:

 

Exhausted after 57 miles and 10 1/2 hours:

    

And early start on Day 5:

An abandon, flooded out camp-site on the river bank:

Tree with a large bird along the Congaree:

Only 1 of the 7 or 8 spans of this trestle were clear of logjams:

    

An eagles nest in Lake Marion:

Hot, exhausted and sunburned I arrive at Santee Cooper SP: 

   

 

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