Well before I get into our time spent at Palisade's State Park I must note that we got up and rode early this morning, We chose a fairly moderate pace since we were working on 110 miles plus for the week. Now I know for some of you that's a good days ride, but for us old folks it a good week. The high lite of the week was Thursday night when we rode to Worthing, over to Lennox, up to Tea and then home. By the way next Saturday is the Tour De Corn in Mitchell, be there be square. 
We decided to head up the Palisades today with the kayaks. Kay's brother, David, and his family were camping up there. It was a great day. Mild temps, very light breezes and plenty of sunshine. When we got there we had a chat with the park ranger and he gave us a couple of suggestions for paddling. We decided to head down to the lower parking area, across the old bridge and see if we couldn't head south. We the water level was a bit low and we found we could not navigate the rapids so we ended up carrying the boats around them. Once around them it opened up very nicely just about the same area as the King and Queen rock formations. Kay and headed south chatting with a couple of canoes full of people. We unfortunately had to assure them that they had just about hit the end of the trail going north. The water was
nice and calm between the high cliffs and we could paddle and watch mountain climbers scale the walls of granite. So we paddled as far south as we could and then headed back up stream. Once there I let Kay's brother and his young son take my boat for their first kayaking experience. While I waited for them to return I watched some more mountain climbers and just enjoyed being outside on such a beautiful day. We finished up our limited paddling and headed back up to the camp site for some burgers before we headed home. A nice day. Paddling could have been a bit longer, but hey.
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