Canoeing with the dog

About a month ago we decided to take our canoe out for the first time (since getting it from Colleen's mom on Labor Day weekend.)

We took our dog Amber and left Kylie at home because the canoe could probably only hold one dog with two people!  (Amber is now back with Colleen's uncle up in DC)

We tied up the canoe to our car

Drove 8 miles over to Lake Johnston by Colleen's school, and put in at the loading beach

Amber was a little nervous at first with shaky legs, but she eventually warmed up to it:

and eventually just continuously leaned over the edge of the canoe and drank the lake water!

There are other places we want to canoe too.  The City of Raleigh has a canoeing park along the Neuse River with about 15 miles of canoeable river with multiple put in and take outs. 

We stopped by to check it out one time when we were driving by the most upstream launch

Above this you can put in with kayaks and go through the small falls/small rapids shown below.  Some kayakers were setting up a little upstream of us and we kept waiting to see them go through it, but they never got going the whole time we were there.  So we just hung out on the rocks (it was back in September and it was warm and pleasant back then) and enjoyed the sounds of the water.