Beaver Creek at Brownbranch

Tobin woke up this morning with a game plan. He wanted to drive to Beaver Creek, near Mark Twain National Forest, so we could float the Creek and check it out. It is actually located in Brownbranch, MO. Beaver Creek is a spring fed stream with lots of Ozark nature and scenes. It was a great stream for fishing Small-mouth and Large-mouth Bass, Goggle-Eye, Blue Gill, and White Bass. We even saw several HUGE Gar that were 2.5 feet long!!! This is where we "put in" and I was afraid it wouldn't be wide enough for our paddle width!! However,the only problem we had was that they outfitter that shuttled our truck didn't tell us that the river was so low that we would have to portage several times. There were several tricky spots that we maneuvered without leaving the kayak, but three times that we had to get out and haul our kayak through brush, over gravel bars, and over fallen trees. Of course, had he told us that, he wouldn't have gotten his $26! Overall, it was a pretty day and an OK creek. Here are a few shots of our woes. lol

This was the first time we had to portage and it was through some snaky looking reeds!
This time we managed to stay in our kayaks, but it was a tricky spot or you ended up in the root wad and who knows what might crawl out of that!
This was no big deal, but Tobin took my pic as I leaned back to clear the fallen tree.
This was an actual bald eagle nest. It wasn't inhabited, but pretty cool nonetheless! We drove through Forsyth and decided to eat lunch there. I can honestly say I had never been there. Both of us had to crash once we got home. The sun just drained us, I guess.

I even managed to do a "Kodi-style" scrapbook page completed in one hour! I'll have to post tomorrow that tomorrow. A good day overall!