Introducing the rIVER READER WRITER

I have always kept a detailed log of each River Reader Kayaking trip for my own notes. It helps me with remembering people, tides, sightings, seasons--and occasionally provides fodder for my articles, poems, and pedagogy. 

This year, I plan to publish these log entries in blog form--for both the Waccamaw river trips and for the Murrells Inlet salt marsh trips--so that folks can know what to expect on certain tours at certain times. I will always ask permission from clients before publishing names or other identifying information.

My inspiration comes, in part, from books like Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek--the kind of nature writing in which the small vignettes, when read together, form a glimpse into the year-in-the-life of a place.