March Trip on Fall Creek
Location: Fall Creek 79th to Shadeland Ave./Fall Creek Park
Distance: +/-5.75 miles
Date: 3/27/08
Gauge: 5.3 (Millersville)
Paddle Time: 2 hours
Paddlers: James (Looksha), Doug (Breeze)
Weather: 45 & sunny

This was a really nice early spring paddle. When we put in at 79th Street the water was up a couple of feet from the last time we did this run so it was really easy to slide right in. We had been a little concerned about trees being down because the water had been pretty high earlier in the week but there was only one tree we had to drag around. We made a short side trip up Indian Creek but stopped about a quarter mile up because of a tree across the creek.
At one time we had eight herons in the air ahead of us because we kept pushing pairs of them downstream. That was really a sight.
The small drop at the Shadeland and 465 bridges was a lot of fun. The water was high enough to cover all the rocks, and there was a small standing wave at one point. We both got quite a bit of water in our boats but it didn’t matter much since we were at the end. There is a really nice takeout opportunity at the park just downstream; the accessible ramp makes a really nice ramp to get a boat out. We definitely want to do this again at the same water level with the smaller boats in warm weather. It would be fun to go up & play in the “waves”.