July 1, 2011 – Silverton, OR (continued)

Friday was a nice, warm sunshiny day – yeah!  We decided to get some laundry done in the morning and after lunch we took the kayaks to Silverton Reservoir.  This is a really nice, small reservoir completely surrounded by large pine trees.  We kayaked all around the reservoir and upstream in Silver Creek a short distance until it got to shallow for the kayaks.  It was a really nice, relaxing afternoon.

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