Day 2: Hole in kayak!

While chatting with the Coudersport police officer the night before he said, " Sorry to break it to ya, kid, but it's not calling for much rain." Waking up to a few hours of rain was a pleasant surprise. With rain we have a much better chance to make progress on this shallow bits of the river.

In the morning we had our first article done about the trip. After that, our first challenge of the day was getting the kayak into the water. There is a viaduct going all throughout the town and a steep climb to reach the water. Within minutes of being in the water we realized a leak in the kayak (it's inflatable) but thanks to the kindness of some residents of Coudersport we were able to fix the hole rather quickly and get on with the journey.

The river was deep enough for James to kayak most of the day. I managed to create my own swim stroke, basically crawling around water depths of 2-3 feet. It was basically an army crawl, every so often lodging into rocks. Unfortunately my blog may be a bit boring after this week when I start swimming consistently and my view is cloudy water all day!