Author Topic: Kayak camping thru Mammoth Cave National Park (Read 6641 times)

Josey Walls · « **Reply #60 on:** January 12, 2010, 04:48:56 PM »

I killed these two with my bare hands.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #61 on:** January 12, 2010, 05:02:24 PM »

Anyone ever seen ice form around the base of a plant like this?

It's like eating a frozen flower.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #62 on:** January 12, 2010, 05:15:34 PM »

This is the entrance to a rock shelter that housed an early Paleo family, of about 25.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #63 on:** January 12, 2010, 05:18:33 PM »

After days of searching for the right tunnel, I found this exit.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #64 on:** January 12, 2010, 05:22:43 PM »

This is the entrance to this ancient place.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #65 on:** January 12, 2010, 05:26:08 PM »

The smaller caves are were the familys lived.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #66 on:** January 12, 2010, 05:30:17 PM »

This is the entrance to a very large room.

Inside looking out.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #67 on:** January 12, 2010, 05:36:33 PM »

This is one of the most spectacular places I have ever found.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #68 on:** January 12, 2010, 05:49:56 PM »

I found this spear head in a creek when I was 13 years old.

That was the begining of my search for the early people who knapped these spears..... to kill the early Mammoths.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #69 on:** January 12, 2010, 06:00:10 PM »

I found all the flint tools within 2 miles of the creek where I found my first one.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #70 on:** January 12, 2010, 06:11:38 PM »

Enjoy...

Haywire Haywood · « **Reply #71 on:** January 13, 2010, 02:41:22 PM »

All those snakes give me the willies.

I'm over in Richmond, just south of Lexington.

Ian

Badnews Bob · « **Reply #72 on:** January 13, 2010, 03:03:20 PM »

So is Jen ready to go kayaking there Haywire?

We always have called those kind of ice formations Ice Angels.

Haywire Haywood · « **Reply #73 on:** March 21, 2010, 03:01:27 PM »

Badnews picked up a kayak a couple weeks ago, and I will have one in about a week or 10 days. I went out with his yesterday. It was my first time in a kayak and thankfully, I didn't get to find out what it's like to roll one. I put my hand in the water and it was stinging from the cold within a minute. Jennifer and I went up the Red River about 3 miles and back. After paddling Bob's, and sitting in a few other kinds, I settled on the same one Bob got. It's a 12' Dagger Axis. http://www.dagger.com/news_item/index/recent_news_events/news/new_dagger_axis_all_water_adventure/

Ian

snapcrackpop · « **Reply #74 on:** April 12, 2010, 04:57:07 AM »

Quote from: Josey Walls on January 11, 2010, 03:09:41 PM

How...what the...

I'm puzzled.......

Great pictures, but this one keeps my attention.
Can't figure it out with the water looking so clear it looks fake....quite the illusion.

Badnews Bob · « **Reply #75 on:** April 12, 2010, 01:09:54 PM »

It dose look unreal but if you look close you will notice that the bottom of it is really the reflection of the structure, That's what gives it the strange floating effect. Kinda like seeing two horizions at a large lake, Usually late evening or early morning.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #76 on:** April 12, 2010, 01:18:03 PM »

It's just a log in the river.

Glad you enjoyed my pics.

Cannoneer · « **Reply #77 on:** July 29, 2010, 07:22:08 AM »

Thanks, Josey, this is a beautiful photo essay.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #78 on:** July 31, 2010, 11:39:39 AM »

Thanks everyone for the nice compliments.

Frank and I just returned from a 2 week kayak/hiking trip.

Hope you enjoy em...

Josey Walls · « **Reply #79 on:** July 31, 2010, 11:44:59 AM »

The temps where in the mid 90's

Josey Walls · « **Reply #80 on:** July 31, 2010, 11:50:43 AM »

Someone just left this old army sleeping bag on the island, I also found their air matress floating about 2 miles down river.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #81 on:** July 31, 2010, 12:05:08 PM »

I hate ticks and chiggers while in the woods.

So I thought I would try something a little safer than deet, 2 weeks in the woods and not 1 bug bite, thanks to buzz-off clothing.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #82 on:** July 31, 2010, 12:14:41 PM »

The river was 20 feet above flood stage 3 weeks before the trip.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #83 on:** July 31, 2010, 12:20:20 PM »

We still had a blast.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #84 on:** July 31, 2010, 12:29:26 PM »

Frank enjoyed the trip more than I.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #85 on:** July 31, 2010, 12:34:10 PM »

Frank wore the buzz-off bandana to keep the sketters off him.

Josey Walls · « **Reply #86 on:** July 31, 2010, 12:40:50 PM »

Happy camping...

pmeisel · « **Reply #87 on:** August 01, 2010, 05:31:57 AM »

It's been years since I went camping, and a long time since I spent any real time in that part of KY. Even though my wife's people live less than 100 miles from there.

I think I need to correct that.

Anduril · « **Reply #88 on:** August 02, 2010, 11:57:00 AM »

Josey,
you ain't married, are ya?
If so, your wife must be VERY understanding

..

Josey Walls · « **Reply #89 on:** August 02, 2010, 12:59:27 PM »

Yes, I've been married for 37 years, she is very understanding.

We spent our honeymoon on an island...............along the green river.