Sugar Creek

My girlfriend, a friend, and I went paddling on Sugar Creek today. We did our regular trip from Deer Mill to Cox Ford. I think the water flow was about 200 cfs at Crawfordsville. It was a chilly day, but we stayed pretty warm until it got dark. We didn't get on the water as early as we had hoped, so we had to paddle the last 3 miles or so in the dark. We saw plenty of bald eagles and hawks today. At one point there were about 7 eagles circling around overhead. We camped at Shades State Park that night. Some kids decided to start chopping wood about 8:00 AM, I only hope we kept them up last night when we stayed up drinking beers. We went for a short day hike at Pine Hills Nature Preserve. There's some nice geological features here, the best of which is Devil's Backbone (see picture). I'm also including the Shades Park "Official" Scat Rap:

Starts with an "S", ends with a "T",
It comes out of you, it comes out of me,
I know what you're thinking, it could be called that,
But let's be scientific, and call it "scat".

If you wanna find out what animals eat,
Take a good look at what they excrete,
Stuck in the scat are all kinds of clues,
Parts of the food that their bodies can't use.

Down by the creek on a hollow log,
Scat full of berries and bones of frogs,
Fresh last night he was out with the moon,
Hunting crawdads, it was Mr. Racoon.

You park your car by a wood or a field,
Gonna find scat on your windshield,
Full of seeds, purple and white,
You just got bombed by a bird in flight.

If you wanna know what's in the woods or around,
Take a good look at the scat on the ground,
It tells us what they eat and tells us who they are,
And that's what we know about scat so far.