Deb on a Kayak

Yesterday I convinced Debbie to try kayaking the town section of the Virgin River during high spring runoff. I have been taking various friends and family down different sections of the Virgin River over the past few years using the sit-on-top creek kayaks that I purchased. Some sections are rocky and challenging and other sections are more relaxed and less technical. The section through St. George is considered the easiest section of the river and with the recent floods the channel has been scoured and cleared of a lot of tamarisk trees. We put in at the fish dam straight south of Pine View High School and floated to the Man-O-War bridge into Bloomington. It took us a little over an hour and we had a good time. The first few miles Deb struggled a little bit, spinning around and around out of control, until she got the hang of handling the kayak. The sand waves were particularly good this year and they were quite fun as the river is running very high for just a spring runoff.