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August in Oklahoma tends to be very hot and dry.  This limits our paddling to long road trips or lake paddling.  Lake paddling can be fun if you know where to go and you get out when the light it good near sunrise or sunset.  To the left you see Lake Eufaula in a shot taken from Gentry Creek Campground.  As you can see, it is at a very wide and wavy part of the lake. This makes Gentry Creek popular with Jet Ski and wakeboarding fans.

This week Oklahoma canoe paddlers caught a break.  An unusual week of Summer rain has graced The Sooner State raising the level of the Illinois River. It won’t stay at this exciting level for long I’ll bet.

The Kiamichi River and the Glover River also appear to have caught a little rain.

In nearby Arkansas, the Ouachita River, Buffalo River and the Caddo River have been benefiting from the recent rains. Oklahoma paddlers…start your engine…less…ness!

The Mulberry River at Turners Bend appears to be moving up slowing, but it was still too low when I wrote this blog posting.