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Catawba River Paddle March 2003 (Click thumb-nail images to expand..) |
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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:
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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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