Located in the Lawrence, Perry/Lecompton and Topeka area, Up a Creek is dedicated to providing you with memorable water outings. Whether it’s an afternoon or all day float or an overnight campout on a sandbar, when you paddle with Up a Creek “If you have a bad time, It’s your own fault!”Annual UAC Pirate Cruise
Last year's Pirate cruise was such a hit that we've had numerous requests for a repeat this season. For those who didn't come along last year, be sure not to miss it this time around. The pirate float consists of a 6 1/2 mile float on the Kaw complete with treasure maps that mark sandbars along the route with buried treasure for all the scallywags to dig up and share.
Check out the pics from last year's Pirate Run and be sure to reserve your spot on this year's cruise before they run out!
Return of the Platarex
Earlier this year we took on the mighty Kaw armed with a crew of paleontologists (and an accountant). After discovering numerous fossils from the velociraptor and t-rex family, they have decided to return for another adventure.
UAC night under the stars
Many requests for an overnight at Camp Up a Creek have prompted us to go ahead and schedule a night under the stars on Puppy's farm. Not to be confused with Up A Creek-palooza, which will be held later in October, this event will be an adults-only venue, complete with a bonfire (please Uncle Ron, no spare tires on the fire this time), cookout, and perhaps a movie on the UAC big screen. There won't be any paddling on this adventure -- just a campout without the river. But we promise a good time for all of you who attend. More details will follow on what to bring, etc., as we get closer to the date.
Happy Birthday, Dot!
Last Saturday Dorothy celebrated her 70th birthday with her children and grandchildren on the Kansas River. One thing that is worthy of explanation here -- when we scheduled this float Uncle Ron and I were thinking, "70th birthday party? This will be one slow, lazy day on the Kaw!" We couldn't have been more wrong. Between Dot's 70 years young and her over-zealous teenage grandsons who apparently never stopped paddling, we made it from Perry to Lawrence in record time!
So here's to the birthday girl! Dot, you and your family are welcome to come back and float with us anytime. Click here for photos from the event.
The River Nay Nay
Two days of near 100-degree temps, two hot floats. We'll work backwards here: Sunday is for some, a day of workship and rest. At Up a Creek, however, Sunday is the day of the Nay Nay.
Renay and Lorrie, arguably our VIP paddlers for this season, brought friends Britanie and Erin to join Craig and Shannon for a Sunday afternoon float along our favorite stretch of river. After sloshing through knee-deep mud to the river's edge, the girls grabbed their boats and headed down river. I believe we made it maybe a quarter mile before our first of many sandbar stops.
I won't try to summarize Sunday's float any more than I've already done. Instead, let's just let the photos tell the story.
Uncle Ron handled Saturday's float with several families along as they floated our favorite stretch of the Kaw for the appropriately named "Cuz' Uncle Ron Said So" float -- from Jay's to the boat ramp at Rising Sun. Great water levels and plenty of sandbars made for a hot but satisfying Saturday. Lots of time in the water to avoid the high temperatures. Click the photo below for shots from Saturday's float.
Cuz' Uncle Ron Said So!
After a beautiful float last weekend, Uncle Ron has been itchin' to get back on the river. We're planning on putting in at Jay's (behind Gary's Berries) on Saturday around noon and floating to Rising Sun in Perry.
Want to come along? We have plenty of canoes and kayaks available for the day. Forecast calls for sunny skies and a high of 94 degrees. With the river levels dropping, we should have plenty of sandbars to enjoy along our lazy float. Click here to contact UAC and let us know you'd like to join us!
2 Days...3 Floats...What a Great Weekend on the Kaw!
The Weekend started with the Kreider Folks and several families floating from Perry to Lawrence…The flow had dropped to 6500cfs on the Kaw and many of the sand bar features that we appreciate had returned, giving us land dwellers a place to build sand castles, look for fossils and exchange stories and some homemade wine…The only real problem was Mother Kaw giving Uncle Ron a ride over the power plant rapids without a kayak... oh well... if ya have a bad time, it’s your own fault right?
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(Click on the images above to view the photo albums for this weekend's three floats.)
Next up was an Early Moring Run on the Kaw... we jumped in at Jay’s and floated to Perry…in one day the water was up 3 feet…but it was still a beautiful morning and to top it off, we floated up on an Eagle perched not a foot off the water waiting for its breakfast... Very Awesome!
To end the day the Floating Flirties came back again this weekend for some more of that Kaw Lovin! Except this time they got smart and switched from canoes to kayaks. By the end of the float UAC even learned about some new Kaw critters... Kayaks, Beavers and Snakes... oh my!!!
Not much Flirting but what a Float!
The Floating Flirties must have an inside line with Mother Kaw, Mother Nature and Mother of What a Day to be on the River!!! 89 degrees...5 mph wind out of the NW...blue sky and sunshine! Whew! What a pleasure to be on the water!
The day was great...even the water temp was nice...For a group of girls that have never been in a canoe before, UAC was impressed. Half way through the float Joy, Elizabeth and Renee tried the kayaks for a spin and then it was out of the canoes and into the kayaks...I think that Renee just edged Joy out of mileage bragging rights...
All in all, it was just a great day on the river!
Puppy
The Floating Flirties
Elizabeth, a new UAC client, will be taking a group of friends down the Kaw on Sunday afternoon. Get-in will be at the Rising Sun boat ramp in Perry and we will be floating down to Riverfront Park in Lawrence.
Biology Lessons on the Kaw...
Up a Creek was contacted last week by some K.U. Biology graduate students for some kayak rentals. We invited them along on to the Kaw with us since the water levels had recenly begun to subside. Although the weather didn't want to cooperate with us we forged ahead regardless of the mud, rain and lightning but by mid afternoon we were glad that we did. The sun came out, we got a lesson in turtles lore, rocks and old bones.
Thanks to Brian, our lone accountant on the run we were even able to find a new species of T-Rex... Platarex. We will be waiting on Vince, Cori and Wes to publish the paper on the findings later this year. No $3000.00 charge to publish it here guys!
Puppy
