Atkinson Adventures

Interrupting west coast blog to post this....

Today we went up the river to catch crawfish. It was Steve, me, the pups, our friend Tyler, his dog (Shepherd) Lady aka Ladybug and Josh McGowan and his 2 boys and their mastiff, Creatos. We had to wait for the water to warm up because it was still way cold and the crawfish were hiding. After a while the guys went with masks and snorkels looking in the deep areas of the river and the two McGowan boys and I went on a little adventure - we found 2. That's not bad considering the guys found like 9 after swimming in the deep sections for a good bit of time.

The dogs all got along amazingly well. Lady had a had time with everything - she cried and cried about walking on the slippery rocks, about Tyler being 2 ft too far from her.. basically everything. Petey did the Petey thing and swim the entire time.

After a few hours, the McGowans left and we took the one net and Tyler had on a mask and the 3 of us and the dogs headed down the river a bit and moved rock and went into the deep more to find as many as we could. After many slips, nips, and listening to the weirdest cries we've ever heard come out of a dog (Lady still) we got about 5 lbs of crawfish.

This is the view of the river... 


and this is the view of the bucket after we had to put all the crawfish BACK in because Handsome has discovered he loves crawfish. He knocked the bucket over trying to get at them.

This was our 2nd trip up the river to go for crawfish. The first time, more of Steve and Tyler's co-workers and their families were with us.. and more dogs! You can hardly beat the scenery! Tomorrow I will get back to posting about the trip and our first little bit in Florence!