Day 25 The Landing Inn, mm 615

We got up at 6am, paddled until 9:30am then stopped over to re-supply until 10:30am. We paddled for another hour then pulled over for lunch. We met our fellow canoeist, Matt, Matt, Ben, and JD. They are also headed for the Gulf. Their schedule is to get on the river at around 10:30ish in the morning and paddled until 7 or 8pm. Unlike us, we start early and rest early. The wind was blowing very hard during lunch so we decided to take an afternoon nap to wait for the wind to die down.  By 1:30pm the wind still had not eased off any so we had to get back onto the river regardless. For the next 15 miles, we paddled against headwind of 25mph. The wind was horrendous creating white caps and 3-4 feet rollers. We paddled until 6:30pm, passed through a lock, and when we were about 1/2 mile from our camp site, the wind died. At that moment, I just looked up at the sky and go "really?". We both were exhausted, pulled over at the Landing Inn's boat dock, hopped off the canoe and went into a quaint little local "Bar and Grilled" for dinner, having all-you-can-eat chicken wings. The bar tender is a very cute girl. She told us that this town "Gutenberg" has a 2:1 ratio, two females per male. This is every man's dream land. Here is a little side note from yesterday event. As we pulled up to our camp site yesterday evening, Jeffrey spotted a bear. The bear looked back at Jeffrey, stood up on his hind legs then turned around and walked into the woods. We were too tired then to care, pulled our canoe up to shore and set camp anyway. The bear didn't come back at all last night to bother us. We slept like babies.


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