Endless Summer

The Beach Boys said it best! I know school has already started but we still have some time for more fun. My buddy Scott came for a visit from California and he and Shaw and I went back up to Fossil Creek for a Saturday swim. If you look closely at this pic, you can see a diver just about to enter the water from having jumped off of that tallest rock above the falls and to the right. Just click the photo to enlarge it. Shaw and I are standing to the right in that row of people. I'm wearing a black t-shirt and Shaw is in front of me. Thanks to Scott for taking the pic. Here's Shaw swinging on a rope swing.

Below the falls you'll find a several swimming holes separated by little rapids. We did some exploring intending to stay for a couple of hours and swim away from the crowd at this particular diving hole. Shaw got a bit too close to some rapidly flowing water and got sucked down a chute and got pretty banged up on some rocks. Both Scott and I saw it but neither of us were close enough to grab him. Once Shaw realized that the white water rapids were in his future and that there was no help for him, he accepted it, gave up the fight with grace and courage and turned himself around and went down feet first and avoided what could have been horrible injuries.

He was wearing a t-shirt and when I got to him, he was holding his side with his arm kinda twisted. I thought he may have broken his arm. He had scrapped his side pretty badly. We gave gratitude to God for the protection in an accident that could have been really bad.

Up in the mountains near Strawberry Arizona on the way to Fossil Creek is a goat and llama farm. We stopped in to buy some goat milk chocolate fudge and some goat milk peanut butter fudge. Deeeeee-LISH!