If you enjoy a little river with catfish, you'd like the one near our place in Alabama. On holidays, and almost any summer day, I found the lakes around there unbearable. Thundering, madly driven, boats and skijets making me think I was at an airport, not in the great outdoors. Then there's the boomboxes turned way up high.
Our river isn't accessible enough to attract them, thank goodness. Just some kayakers, fisherfolk in rowboats and sitting on shore, and kids in cutoffs leaping from the cliffs, and swinging from ropes into the swimming holes. Most days you can walk over and not see another soul, especially if you know the right spots. You can sit there and watch the sun set behind the cliff and walk home before the sky is fully dark. |
