Here I am on my own again.
Damn! Those guys were the best! That"s another place I"m really going to miss.
I"m stuck out here on the edge of this sandbar and have been for two weeks. The weather has improved, but the river is all iced up.
Trust me. Ice up was quite an experience. I stopped drifting when I ran aground on this sandbar. Then the temperature started dropping and it kept dropping. Kind of like a head shot goose from fifty yards up. Straight down! Colder and colder! Then slush started forming in the river, and, my, the noise it made. Just a steady nerve racking “Hiss. Shh. Hiss. Shh. Hisshhh. Hissssshhh!”
The noise was continuous for about half a day, and then complete, dead silence!
And the river stopped!
It seemed the cold had strangled the river!
For an hour, there wasn
