Good Swimming Weather

My old friends Seiza http://www.seizaroo.blogspot.com/and Linda Grace came for a visit this week and we spent the afternoons at the creek. Cow Creek.

The Cow Creek swimming hole is about 10 miles from the house but worth every mile. We can ride our bikes to a place to swim on the Umpqua River, it is huge wide bend in the river with a long and deep swimming channel. The only drawback it that it is that the freeway is on the other side. Cow Creek is off the main road and very quiet and private. There are several swimming holes off a small dirt side road. The first spot to park accesses the little beach that we are at. The unwritten rule is that if a car is parked there, they have the beach below. Further upstream there are spots to park just below the small rapids and above that the huge swimming hole. Seiza wanted to swim in the big swimming hole even though it had several families, kids and dogs already there. But then we noticed a engine noise and saw a machine there on a raft that was sifting the sand and looking for gold. It was so completely annoying that they would be so selfish as to dredge right there where we all go to swim. There were several dredges when we really looked around and we decided to go back to the first beach where we had a very relaxing and private day.

Thanks for listening.
Deborah