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I panicked. The boat was rocking wildly, and I couldn’t remember what they had said to do when it was rocking like that.

Slowly, the boat started to stop rocking. I turned around to see what Bruce was doing. He was sitting there, in his spot, rocking back and forth with the canoe.

“Oh, that’s what we were supposed to do. Oops!”

“What?”

“We were supposed to rock back and forth with the canoe, not panic and grab at the gunwhales.”

“Yeah. Loose hips, remember?”

“I remember now. When you made the canoe rock like that I couldn’t think! What did you do that made it move like that?”

“I got in it.”

The look on his face told me I wasn’t going to get any more out of him, so I gave up. We turned the canoe around, somewhat awkwardly, but we made it.

At that point, all of the canoes were in the water. Patrick and Glenn gave us a few final instructions, and then we were told to get out of the eddy.

An eddy is the little calm spot right behind a big obstacle. In this case, it was a tree that stuck out into the river. We were all hiding behind the tree and the water just stayed in place there.

Trying to get out of the eddy

It took us a bit of time, but finally everyone was out of the eddy, and all of us were pointing the right way. 🙂

We started paddling, and we were on our way. And it wasn’t long before the first rapids were in sight.

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