This summer, several of us went across the road to a piece of property that we own. On the far border runs a big, wide creek.
Since it hadn't rained for awhile, it was low enough to play safely in. So, we headed down there to check it out. The walk there was hot and we had to go through a cornfield. Once we got to the creek, we encountered a problem. The bank was very steep. We found a almost vertical spot that was clear of weeds. It looked too steep, so we hacked through some tall weeds until we reached the edge of the bank where we thought we could go down. That spot was way too overgrown. So we went back to the clear spot and pretty much just slid down into the water. Finally, we got into the creek! It was fairly shallow and clear where we had gotten in. There are a LOT of clams (actually we just saw clamshells, very few live clams). There are tons of tiny ones and plenty of big ones. We had to head back because Anne had piano lessons. But, a few days later, Anne and Sammy went on a long exploring expedition. Upstream wasn't very interesting, muddy and deep (and not part of our property). So we went downstream. Sometimes the water was too deep and we had to crawl along the bank, which was usually slippery and muddy. Copper was with us. He had a lot of fun. In some places, it was deep enough for him to swim. Once, we went back up on level ground and then we climbed back down using a tree that was sticking out of the bank. Eventually, after about two hours, we decided to go home. We hadn't gone very far actually, but it felt that we had traveled forever because it was difficult. While working our way downstream, we came across a gas pipeline running through the creek.
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