Trip Report: Fish River (upper)

Fish River (upper)
Sunday, March 14, 2004
by Brint Adams brint.adams@us.army.mil

We met at the Baldwin County Wetlands Conservation Park on Keeney Drive E. located below the West end of the CR 32 bridge over Fish River. Carl, Tom, Linda and I headed up river on a warm, mostly cloudy morning with no breeze and glass-like water conditions. As we passed waterfront homes, we saw many colors from Azaleas, Camelias, Daffodils to wild Jasmine and Blackberry flowers along the banks. We explored the many tight turns around white sand beaches up Cowpen Creek and an unnamed hidden waterway a little further up the River on the left. We then then turned up Polecat Creek and followed it up as far as we could, well beyond the CR 9 bridge. The water was flowing fairly swiftly at the upper end and we gladly turned around and quickly floated back down, stopping for lunch at one of the many beaches along this traditional blackwater creek. There were fresh deer hoof prints along the beach. We saw several turtles out sunning as we returned back to the wetlands park.