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WAFTING THE ENO RIVER
May 1 through October 15, 2008
***All our wafting trips are full during the ten day period of August 11-21.
(Please note an "urgent alert" at http://fowpp.org/3901.html)
A guided, natural history float trip in
inflatable wafts is offered at West Point Park on the Eno River led by
Durham native, naturalist "Riverdave" and partner "Riojosie."
2008 will be our 19th year of wafting! The daytime trip focuses on the
natural beauty and biodiversity of the Eno River and provides an
excellent setting to explore your sensory connection with the river and
its native wildlife. Nighttime trips take the form
of a neoprimitive journey, allowing you to explore your intuitive
and subliminal connection with the river's night environment.
Wafting requires two hours of relaxed
paddling in tandem boats on a tranquil section of the river. No
previous experience is required. Equipment, including
PFDs, is provided for all ages to participate safely. There
is no minimum age requirement, but children under ten years of age
generally need to be in a boat with a child over ten years old or with
an adult. Wafting for schools, universities, camps, clubs,
neighborhoods, churches, synagogues, scouts, birthday parties,
parent-child outings, senior citizens and businesses can be easily
arranged.
West Point on the Eno Park is located in
north Durham on North Roxboro Street, four miles north of Interstate
85. Wafting for individuals, families or groups is available most
days at 10 AM & 3:30 PM. Nighttime wafting is at 9 PM
every friday evening. Advanced reservations are strongly
encouraged,
but
sometimes walk-ons can be accommodated. For nighttime trips, all
participants must sign up in even numbers as we do not like to match
those unacquainted with one another in the same tandem boat in the
dark. Individuals may sign up in odd numbers for daylight wafting. We
do not waft on mondays.
The fee for all ages is $13 per person.
The fee is the same for both adults and children, purple
people, those possessing three arms or four legs, those with
lichens growing on their foreheads or seaweed under their
arms and for aliens of all planetary orientations. There are no
special group rates for anyone. Instead, we try to keep our price
reasonable for everyone and simple for us to keep up with. Sorry,
but pets are not allowed to accompany wafters in their boats.
RIVERDAVE
Resident Field Naturalist
West Point on the Eno Park
Durham, North Carolina
tel - 919-471-3802
"If
you have but one paddle experience this summer, make sure it is the
two-hour, life-altering Wafting the Eno River trip." Joe Miller -
staff writer, The News and Observer, June 3, 2005
"There were wafted to me evidences of unexplored and uncultivated continents on the other side..." Henry David Thoreau - Walden
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