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Morning on the water

January 1, 2015 by Dave Knadler

kayaking thomas creek florida

Plying the dark waters of Thomas Creek.

Today we took the kayaks out to Thomas Creek, which is as a good a way as any to start out a new year. Our friends Ryan and Jackie joined us for an easy paddle on glassy water, a four-mile round-trip under cloudy skies. Temperature was a little under 60 — a pleasant coolness I don’t experience often enough in this part of the country. We met one other party on the creek, a middle-aged guy out fishing in a motorboat. Saw no wildlife save for a flock of vultures circling off to the north. Being a crime-fiction sort of guy, I wondered if someone had disposed of a body after some New Year’s revelry gone wrong.

Tess and I were barely awake for New Year’s Eve. I considered a few resolutions and discarded each of them in turn. I had one shot of bourbon and a few episodes of Trailer Park Boys to see out the old year. Out on the porch, the sound of celebratory gunfire continued long past midnight. There seemed to be more of it this year than last. I don’t know what it is with Jacksonville. The thought of so many drunk people expending so much ammunition in an urban area is no longer amusing. I kept waiting for the patter of falling bullets on my new metal roof. But there were no reports of unintended gunshot injuries today, so maybe I worry too much.

Anyway, Happy New Year. Let the record show that I started it with kayak float and a blog post.

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Comments

  1. Sheila says

    January 1, 2015 at 5:01 pm

    What a perfect way to start the year! And now that the gunfire is over for another year, I hope to read more frequent posts!

  2. Deb says

    January 1, 2015 at 6:27 pm

    Happy New Year, Dave—-it’s currently 27 with lots of wind here in Rhode Island—enjoy the balminess!

    • Dave Knadler says

      January 3, 2015 at 5:25 pm

      Ugh. But it got up to a muggy 81 here today. Too damn soon for that kind of heat!

  3. Meri West says

    January 3, 2015 at 11:39 am

    I am still hearing celebratory or maybe murderous gunfire in my neighborhood. But then again, it happens with such regularity that the New Year is just another day.

    • Dave Knadler says

      January 3, 2015 at 5:24 pm

      I know! As Paul Simon observed in song: “I don’t find this stuff amusing anymore.”

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