Bax & Dad's excellent adventure

This is my calf that got injured when I slipped on one of the logs on the raft

I can't remember how I injured my knee


My finger when I slammed it into a nail while hammering

My toe that got gashed open while we were spinning out of control down the Chinlak rapids and I stepped on the bow saw.

Our friends Martin, Homer, And Robert from the firehall and Martin's Kids Sydney and Alex were all waiting for us at the boat launch at Cottonwood Island Park to help get the boat out of the water and welcome us home.

Dad pointed out that we would see two different bridges before we got to the park, one of which being the historical(sort of) Cameron Street Bridge

We noticed some very large trees with beaver teeth marks almost all the way through, the beavers in PG must have a better work ethic than the ones is Ft St James.

.....You see summer cottages with more windows than a hardware store with a satallite dish. I was quite excited when I saw this as I knew we were close to home

As our last night of camping and the first not on the raft we camped in 3 foot high grass! its a good thing we brought our allergy medecine.

After we reached the Nechako River we heard very loud sounds uncharacteristic of deer or moose. It turned out to be a train and they came past several times a day and all the way to Prince.

As I said before the sun was very hot, I only took my shirt off a few times to avoid burning my skin that has yet to see the light of the summer rays.

For those of you who havn't taken a river trip it is important to recognize the hazzards. The things that look benign can end up becoming potentially life threatening if you are not careful


This is a log jam with some sweepers that can your boat can get caught up on. The problem with a sweeper is that water still runs through it. The log can grab you while the water pulls you under.


The white water that looks harmless identifies a change in current underneath which might mean shallow water or a huge boulder that is resting inches below the surface.



Here is a below the water sweeper. The problem with these logs is you don't know how long they extend into the river. For our raft this wasn't a problem as it bounced off most things that were at the same height as the logs.

A large log jam in the middle of the river usually means that something is behind it. It also had a strong gravitational pull for the raft which essentially was a well organized floating log jam.

Here you can see what is behind the jam.


A high sweeper can pull your stuff off the raft. The sweeper that we hit on the Chinlak rapids was about 3 feet about the water level and was a densely branched spruce.


Here is a water level sweeper which you would not want to meet while floating in the river.