Went up to Beachburg with the Ross’ for a great day on the magnificent white water of the Ottawa River. We never got the forecast sun, so it was a tad chilly, but it was still a great way to spend the day. Thankfully the camera wasn’t pointed at me during my session with Mr. Ross, but Cindy wasn’t so lucky. I was proud that she actually wanted to try to learn the basics like “wet exiting” when the kayak flips over, and attempting to learn the “Eskimo roll” so you don’t have to “wet exit” when you do flip.

Sully freaked right the hell out when Cindy was having her lesson and swam out and flipped her over in a failed attempt to “save” her. Cindy actually flipped herself over to prevent Sully’s claws from puncturing the Kayaks neoprene skirt. Once she had successfully completed lesson #1 and wet exited the kayak, he proceeded to, again in a some perverse canine attempt to save Cindy’s life, climb on top of her and force her under water. The whole time I’m yelling myself hoarse trying to get the dog back to shore so I can proceed to throttle him. Rob Ross was swimming around heroically trying to extricate the two of them. Cindy was fine and only suffered  a few scratches.  Sully is also still alive; didn’t even hit him (I never do), but, boy-howdy, did he know I was angry. Is there any breed that can look as pathetically chastened as a Golden Retriever? Somehow I didn’t have the presence of mind to take one picture during this ordeal. I’d make a terrible photojournalist.

Anyway, here are a few pics of Cindy and Rob.