We went down the Meramec river with aluminum Kayaks in the Meramec State Park.
Before that we went to a gas station. Everything that is bigger is better.
Gas station sausage and drink section
going downstream
break on a riverbank
lots of turtles
The temperature was very hot and it was humid.
green healthy nature
After a while I figured out hot to handle such a boat properly.
We stopped after a while to leave the kayaks and to go to a cave where bats would live. This cave was closed because the bats living in the cave have a disease (fungus called white nose syndrome) that is killing them. We are protecting the bats by not going inside the cave.
The water coming out of the cave is ice cold and you could feel it very good through the aluminum.
By touching the aluminum it would even seem colder that in the water itself.
a river coming out of a cave
In total we went 10km by kayak.
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