Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Down By the River... My Favorite Place


The sound of flowing water fills the quite morning air as water begins to trickle down the channel. Just as quickly as it started the soft flow of water soon grows, forming a flood of waves twisting and turning; crashing and cascading down the features creating the waters never ending dance of ferocity and felicity.
 
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White water is an addiction. It is an addiction that flows through body and soul.  From the time I was little to now water has played a big part in my life and over the past couple of years has gained even more influence and changed my life forever. I have been a white water rafting guide and instructor for two seasons now and have been in love with every minute of it. This is why my favorite place is in the white water, whether it is in a raft or a kayak.
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More specifically then just in a river among the rapids, one of my favorite places was where I worked as a guide at OKC river sport rapids. Although this adventure park isn’t your typical natural river setting, it is able to boast being one of only two artificial white water rafting parks in the country and three in the world. With six huge, 6,700 horsepower pumps river sport can generate some gnarly class 3 and 4 rapids.

Like a reflection, life is reflected in the water, showing you the churning chaos and confusion of the rapids ripping down the river while simultaneously washing away stress and clouded thoughts teaching patience and tranquility. Water is one of the most powerful forces on our planet, and like water we must continue to push through the hard earth and flow freely

1 comment:

  1. Oh, white water rapids: what a great place to post about, Alex: very cool! It sounds like you really need to explore a topic for this class about the wildness of the water and the wild divinities that inhabit those watery places! That could be such a great way to bring together stories from different places where the waters run strong.

    Quick note about blog links: instead of pasting in the URL, type the caption you want, and then use the URL to make the link, like for that first picture:

    Spring and the Snowmelt


    You can give that a try when you make the links for your next post; the http is computer code, so it is not so useful for your readers, but a caption that you write is useful, giving people more of a clue about where the image comes from. :-)

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