First Camp

I have to say that I live in the most beautiful place in the world. Vancouver Island has it all; rivers, lakes, ocean, wilderness, forest, and you don't have to drive very far to get to any of them.
We ended up camping in Chemainus and not Goldstream as I had originally planned. We had the best time. The weather was mild and the river was warm. It was overcast for most of the time but it only rained on us for a minute this morning. It was a perfect prelude to our longer trip later this week.
One story that I want to tell here is about my daughter in the river. She was having fun, swimming around and I was on the shore watching her. She yelled out when she saw something that looked like a lobster. I later told her that it was probably a crayfish. She thrashed around a bit and quickly regained herself but her sandal was floating down the river. She called out to me so I started the race to try and catch it.
I was running as fast as I could down the side of the river. I was keeping up with it but I was running out of shore. I had my cell phone on my belt (can't get too far away from technology) and I didn't want to fall in with it. I also didn't want to get my leather sandals wet. I knew how upset my daughter would have been if I didn't catch her shoe, so I decided to chance it and waded across the river to the other side, where I had more room to run. The water only came up just past my knees. My sandals now were very sloppy and squishy and I had lost sight of the runaway sandal. I quickened my pace to reach a slow moving part of the river and sure enough, I spied the sandal floating along lazily. I grabbed a stick and dropped my phone on the shore. The thing with slow moving parts of a river is that they are a lot deeper than the fast moving parts. I managed to snag the sandal and save the day! She was so grateful and I'm so glad that I caught it. What a great adventure!