Kayaking on the Jacks Fork River
If you follow me or @jasonrussell, I'm sure you've noticed that we love our local river, The Jacks Fork! It's just a short drive outside of our hometown of Mountain View, Missouri.
We finally got to take our kids out on a float for the first time this year with some of wonderful family and friends.
Here are our daughters, Maci and Annabel, paddling around in the crystal clear water while waiting for the day to start!
Our Yorkie, Bastian, loves to go floating with us. He was keeping a close eye on the fish in this picture :)
We had a total of 9 kayaks in our group, so it was impossible to keep the group completely together as we floated. That's part of the fun though! We get to visit in smaller groups as we paddle and then we all stop several times throughout the day as the full group.
Stopping for some lunch
And a little fishing
And of course, lots of swimming!
About midway through the trip, we stopped to let the kids jump off of this little ledge. @jasonrussell and I grew up on this river, so we are proud to teach our own children how to have fun, but also to be careful and aware of their surroundings at all times.
We are so fortunate to be so close to this wonderful place and we try to visit as much as possible, throughout all of the seasons. Follow me if you enjoy nature, music, writing or photography!
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The water looks very clear. You are very guarding the cleanliness of nature. I love this place.
It is one of the cleanest rivers in the country and we do our best to keep it that way! Most of the locals in this area are very proud this beautiful place and work hard to keep the rivers clean. Thank you for your comment @boynashruddin :)
That's so cool... I envy you a lot
We are indeed very lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the country. Thanks for looking @amedeo!
You're welcome!
It is obvious you are having tons of fun! I love kayaking and this is one of a hell of a river :) Did you catch any fish actually? Thank you for sharing positive emotions :)
We didn't do much fishing yesterday, (besides our friends' son). We usually have better luck in the evening in the "golden hours", a term both relative to fishing and photography ;) There are several varieties fish in this river, but we mostly enjoy catching smallmouth bass. Some days, we get really lucky! Thanks for checking it out @bescouted!
The pleasure is mine, I hope on one of those lucky days you will share your catch :) P.S. After spending here a week i actually started getting notifications! lol Hope it lasts.
I haven't been receiving notifications for months and just noticed they're starting to pop back up. I'm with ya there- hope it lasts!!! :)
Hope so too as it really is helping to follow the updates :)