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Two fifties-something guys had an
adventure last week. The adventure ended well because of Brit
Horn.
Tom B. and Bill E. left Healdsburg on
President’s Day in two borrowed kayaks. They wanted to
traverse the river during the high flows from recent rains.
Flowing downstream, their journey was uneventful all the way to
Guerneville. They broke the trip for a few days promising to
come back and finish the river.
On Saturday, March 1, the men returned to
Guerneville. After placing a pickup vehicle at the Jenner Post
Office, they started their downstream leg. All went
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well. Tom B. landed near the Jenner Post
Office and had climbed up to his vehicle to warm up and eat. Bill
E. went across the river to meet Tom E.’s wife and kids at
the Goat Rock side of the river.
From his vantage point about a mile across
the river, at the Jenner Post Office, Tom could see
Bill’s yellow kayak stop and chat with his family.
Bill’s kayak continued on toward the river mouth. Bill
intended to play in the small surf inside the river. Tom lost
sight of Bill by then.
The small surf lunged up and became a
10-foot wave. It overturned Bill’s kayak.
He was washed out several hundred
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