The French River Part III

 Dalles Rapid Is a serious bit of whitewater that canoeists would plan to portage, especially when there's a wide open area of bedrock to portage over, a relic of the lumbering days when they ran logs through this area.  We weren't going further downstream so we just had lunch and enjoyed ourselves for a couple of hours.

I got down really low on the shore and tried for the view a canoeist would have.  Looked pretty terrifying to me!

In fact there was a grave marker for Doug Smoot, who drowned when his motorboat got sucked in, and he wasn't wearing a life jacket.

It couldn't be a more typical place for pine trees and granite!

I did stop briefly for a picture of the old 'Alligator' boiler.  'Alligators' were steam-powered barges that pulled the logs rafts.

It was a long paddle back home, but we made it after an interesting day on the water.

That evening was a beautiful sunset.

And the next morning a beautiful sunrise.  And with that I headed home, and our winter revisiting of my canoe trips is over.  Hope you enjoyed it!