TIPPIE CANOE AND DAVID TOO!

      TUESDAY, JUNE 26TH., 2018
  TIPPIE CANOE AND DAVID TOO!

   Welcome to June 26th., "National Canoe
Day!"
    According to the Web this unusual
holiday can be traced to 2007. But nobody
seems to know just who started it.
    It wasn't me. I have had some experience
in canoes but it hasn't all been good!
    In an earlier blog I recalled the trip my
late cameraman Bob Dennis and I planned
for the Susquehanna River.
    I had a one man canoe which promptly
sank as the two of us got in at Kirby Park.
Wet and embarrassed, we readjusted our
gear and set sail (of course we actually
paddled) south to the Susquehanna Steam
Electric Station.
     When you stop to think about it the
Susquehanna was Interstate 81 for
native Americans from this area a
couple hundred years ago and canoes
were their Chevys and Fords!
     It's amazing how different things look
from the river. Very nice actually! As long
as you're on it and not waist deep in it!
      Earlier in life I remember my friend
and I taking a canoe out on Penn Lake.
It was a bigger canoe and I was a lot
smaller then so we didn't have any
problem on that voyage.
        Canoe day is celebrated, or
observed, in both the U.S and Canada
so perhaps it should be called
International Canoe Day.
        I've often wondered why many
people worry about being up the
creek without a paddle! Seems to me the
problem would be to be downstream without
a paddle!
        But whether you're upstream or
downstream don't forget your life jacket so
we can be sure all your NEWS stays
good!