On the first of July we picked up Nathan from his house and me, Matthew and Dad took of with him to the Willamette river to go camping for 2 nights. Nathan was really excited to go camping and especially Fishing! He had got himself a license and had his pole ready. Sadly though, during the trip he didn't reel one in at least I don't remember he did... Me and Nathan went down on the kayak which was it's second float ever. We set up the tent and collected wood for the awesome bond fire that we had that night (HUGE HUNKS OF DRIFT LOGS... Dad brought his chainsaw:).
The next mourning we slept in til' about 10 or so, ate breakfast, then spread out all over the Island to go fishing. Eventually, me Nathan and Matthew stopped at this spot of the Island were there are two fairly strong currants reconnecting because of a much smaller island was separating them. (you could call it rapids but there wasn't any "White water"). We were casting our lines not catching anything so I decided to cross over to this small island and I do this big cast way down stream down to were the currant starts to slow down again. Start reeling and bam! I get this big trout on, the fight was really difficult for me because I was fighting the fish and the currant. So for about 4 min. or so we fought. I eventually bring it in on the shore (after crossing back to the main Island). It was about a 15'' Rainbow Trout, I then started to try and get the hook out of it's mouth because it was a native. Because I didn't have pliers I could not get that hook out. So Matthew went to go get Dad (who had the pliers) but by the time he got him and brought him back the fish was to far gone. So we put it out of it's misery. I felt bad that I took out such a good fish that wasn't breded to be killed, but my dad had a good lunch.
After this me and Nathan crossed the big water to go explore some back water some spots were just perfect for swimming but it still wasn't hot enough to get soaked. We soon got to a shallow part were I decided to get out bare foot and Nathan decided to stay in the boat and keep paddling. He went ahead and it turned out there still was another deep spot before it stayed pretty sallow. So I crossed it yelling at Nathan to turn around and give me back my water shoes and it was cold. He laughed turned around got out and gave me my shoes and the towing began. We carried it up over really sallow spots and so on. When I finally saw the main river again I decided to get wet. I stopped for a second Nathan looked at me funny and then I fell. SPLASH! We got to the river and found that Dad and Matthew used the motor on the Drift boat to get there about 5 min. after we left. They had waiting for us for a while...
Later that day we went body surfing down the same "rapids" we went fishing a few hours before. I went screaming out about how cold the water was all the way. Then Nathan got the nerve, laughing all the way HA HA HAA!! We did that a few times then Dad and Matthew joined, went down together a few times. Then we walked up stream (in the water) and went exploring! We collected some cool rocks and smashed a few as well. We got a "Friendship Rock" we smashed a fairly large quarts (I think that's what it is) in two and when we meet we can put the two pieces together. We also made up a game with these logs were we made a point system and we would throw rocks at the logs in the middle of the river (it was fun). On the way back to camp we used the currant to take us down in our life jackets. (I was still telling everyone about how cold it was:)
The next day me and Nathan fished. And later we got some pieces of wood and some rocks and flowers and made our own chess set. All three games I won... That is about it the rest was just leaving the Island and such soooo. Fin of this Camping trip!
