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“There’s a guy who sits and takes pictures all day?”

“Yep, he’s there most days. He has a website where you can buy the pictures of yourself on the river.”

I thought that was extremely interesting, and decided that I would tell Mom about it in the next postcard I wrote. That way she could show all of the kids the pictures of me on my course.

Bobby and I were the third canoe to go through the rapids. It was one of the longer rapids we had done that wasn’t just shallows, and it was pretty difficult.

You could see the place where the photographer was long before you could see him. There was a big building sticking out over the river. I remember praying that he would be there, knowing that it would make my family really happy to see pictures of me while I was still on my trip.

I had to start paying attention to the river. It wasn’t the most complicated rapids we had done, but it was still scary. There was a really big rock sticking out of the river, and we came really close to running right into it. Glenn was sitting on it waving people in the right direction, but Bobby and I couldn’t get our canoe to turn as fast as I would have liked. 🙂

Well, Barry wasn’t going to get a wave from me. I was too busy trying to get us through the rapids without flipping. We managed to make it through without flipping, but it was really close. I don’t remember how I almost flipped, I just remember thinking “That would have been great, for everyone at home to see pictures of me flipping.”

Bobby and I pulled over into a rocky spot where everyone was waiting. We turned around to watch the rest of our crewmates come down the rapids, and were shocked to see that other canoe group instead.

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*Everything here is from my own memory and may not be correct. Outward Bound is not responsible for anything I post here. Thanks too NCOBS for letting me use their photos.*