On Sunday , 18:45, my wife and I headed to the Verdigris. Sun was going down fast. With dinner in a plastic bag, launched and headed north to the confluence of the V. River where it meets the Port. My goal was to demonstrate the way the right bend in the river can carry you upstream. We stopped at such a point for the evening meal. The quarter moon in the sky, the stars out, everything now pretty dark with a faint indication that the middle of the river was flowing pretty briskly just a few feet from where we rested. Both the site and the sounds and even the various scents in the air we passed through on the way up made for a very enjoyable experience.
As a bonus, on our way back, now going with the flow in the dark, we heard the gathering roar of a freight train as we watched its headlight reveal more clearly the bridge some 30 feet ahead of us and 90 feet above us.
The darkness, the black sky and faint moon, the sense of floating on top of deep, moving water underneath the heaviness of the train passing overhead ...and all shared with someone close by.... looking wide-eyed at each other through what dim light there was.... a night to remember.
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