'Fish like the Cahaba because there are no major hydroelectric dams blocking up the place,' columnist JoeGoodmanJr writes after a tumultuous river trip. 'I know all this because I interviewed a couple while submerged underwater.' 🐟🛶
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It’s springtime in Alabama. It’s nice out. I got invited on a canoe trip over the weekend. Things happened. There were, let me just put it this way, events of notable distress. Did everyone survive? Yes. The marriage? We’ll see. My wedding band? No. Absolutely not. It’s gone. The river took it away along with every drop of my river cred.
There were six of us on the trip. Four of us went into the water unexpectedly. All of us experienced the river on the river’s terms. Whole boats sank. A kayak was pinned between a tree and the force of an entire river. Cigarettes were smoked to calm the nerves. Spencer is a veteran of the Marine Corps, and let me just tell you that he can still get out of boats really fast. That skill set remains, thank you, God. Otherwise I might have been walking back to the car without a boat, proof of my marriage and, well, those things people use to turn on the engines of their automobiles. You know, car keys.
Five: “Nose up, toes up if you’re swimming and hold onto your paddle. It’s harder to find than your boat.”
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