Kunjamuk River (and Cave!)

September 10, 2008

Claire and I had an amazing adventure today. Beautiful weather that started off quite cool... We headed to the Kunjamuk River, leaving from Lake Pleasant in Speculator. It was a blast - we stopped to find the Kunjamuk Cave (big hit with Claire) and then continued up to Elm Lake before heading back. We only ran into one other party on the river - a group of 3 boats, all women in their 60s! You go ladies!!! Actually they are the reason we got into a little trouble with our timeline! They encouraged us to make Elm Lake saying it was not far and they seemed so tireless and without any sign of fatigue that I was adamant that we'd make the lake :-) Claire was really enjoying the day and kept asking if we could stay there longer so hey we did it... I think we put in after noon and didn't end up arriving back at the car until 7:30... ok so we did the little hike to the cave and then there was the swimming at 5pm that I gave in to. Needless to say, beautiful beautiful place, fun times with Claire and a very sleepy girl at the end of the day. We had to take a very sparkly (mica) rock to the cave so that the golden butterfly would be protected (not sure where she gets this :-). It was fun. Check out the web album for more pictures, long day so lots of photos - http://picasaweb.google.com/kseleen/Kunjamuk#