Back story: in philadelphia, the 4th of july fireworks are launched
from a barge behind the art museum on the Schuylkill river. last 4th of
july, a plan was hatched to take the kayaks up the schuylkill and see the
fireworks first-hand - with the best seats in the house.
this ill-advised plan was scratched due to bad weather - bad enough to
almost cancel the fireworks all together, and realistically, we were not
physically or equipmentally capable of performing this feat. but ever since
then, the schuylkill has been a target of opportunity.
...and of all of our kayaking adventures to date, i have to say that the
Schuylkill river tours are the most scenic of them all... providing the
most diverse selection of visual stimulus to date.
every time i rounded a bend, ther was something else i wanted a shot of. i
had a very hard time narrowing down the number of shots i wanted to include
in this post.
we paddled a lot further up the Schuylkill than good sense would otherwise
dictate, but around every bend was something else that had to be seen.
philly from the inside out.
then at last, the money shot... center city from the water.
it didn't take a whole lot of mental math to figure out that we'd
be trucking it back to new jersey under the cover of darkness...
but it was worth every minute.
and BTW... after a little google map research, we turned around at the
South Street bridge... within a mile of the art museum (we did about a 16
mile round trip for the day).
guess where we are watching fireworks next year...
one day, your adventures might be used as the script for a kids programme.
you know, that kind of series that runs on sunday afternoons, about a gang
of detective kids and their doggie... :)
yeah, and I really dig this industrial stuff, too. Were those
last tiny things really cars? How come you could see them through
the bridge/whatever they were driving on?
And what was the music you put to the video? Sounded very pin
k-floydish
Philly Invasion II
