A walk along the Bow River, carefully

I mentioned the deluge a few days ago. No surprise, all the rivers are way up. I walked along Fish Creek near Shannon Terrace the other day with the film camera. Lots of trees have fallen into the river, and the bank has moved in several places.

Here's what I saw walking along the Bow at Mallard Point yesterday. Some are documentary, some might be interesting. There was at least one point where the walking path along the bank had fallen into the river, so I was really careful. I figure the water level is at least 2 feet above the normal summer water level. With 20 photos, I'll skip the Of the Day feature, but it will return.

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6. You can normally walk directly to that right-most tree, and at worst the ground is a bit swampy.

7. The path to the bridge had several inches of water on it.

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9. There's normally lots of gravel riverbank extending for quite a ways from the bike path.

10. I didn't want to get my feet wet to go over the bridge.

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15. I kept well away from the cobra chicken and their offspring. They were giving me the stink eye.

16. That used to be the footpath.

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