Flaming Gorge

We just got back from Flaming Gorge. It was a short trip, but we had fun. We went with Shane's sister, Denise, her husband, Eric and their kids, Courtney (13), Caleb (8) and Madison (4).






















On Friday, we went to the Guest Ranch where we were going to stay for the night and then we drove down to Flaming Gorge to do some fishing. The kids had more fun catching crawfish than the brown trout or small mouth bass that we could see swimming around. The fish that we saw at the lake were little and they would just steal part of the worm and swim away.




On Saturday morning we drove back to Flaming Gorge Resort, where we had rented a 9 man raft for the day. We drove back to the bottom of the dam where we put the boat in and floated down the Green River for 7 miles from Flaming Gorge Dam to Little Hole. It's a slow river at that point and we did a LOT of paddling (my arms are so tired). There were a few rapids; if you could call them rapids, maybe you could call them fasters (slightly faster than the river). The kids had so much fun, they got so excited when they would see the white caps coming up and we'd try to paddle us into it so the kids could experience the bumps. Sometimes we'd just end up high centered on a rock. It was really windy at some points which made it pretty tough paddling against the wind - sometimes we felt like we were going back upstream. There were hundreds of fish in the river, we could not believe how many and how big they were - much larger than the fish we saw in the lake. There were tons of fly fishermen - floating in the their little boats, or wadding in their neoprene wadders. With as many fish as we saw, it must be a popular place to fish. Three and a half hours later, sore muscles and all, we arrived at Little Hole and pulled the boat out. We had considered taking a second trip down the river, but the adults were feeling worn out and we decided we better just get the boat back and head home. Now that I'm home and have looked at our photos, I'm disappointed that I didn't get a photo of our family together and I didn't get very many photos - but I've posted a few for you to see. Guess that doesn't matter to the kids, they still say that they had a lot of fun!