The Black River Research Paper

I have a friend named Logan who I have been friends with since about the third grade. We have been pretty much best friends for that whole time. Out of all my other friends he is the one who I can trust the most. He is the one who has spent the most time doing fun things with me. Like last summer he invited me to go to the Black River. Until he invited me I had no idea what the Black River was. The Black River is a pretty small river in comparison to the Kaskaskia or the Meramec. The river is in Missouri and is about a two hour drive from our houses in Fayetteville. It has crystal clear water and when we went it was very shallow. There were only a few deep spots near where we were at.
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This was my first time ever going there. It was beautiful. I had never seen anything like it. It was rocks that had been there for millions of years that the river had cut paths into. There were also places to jump into the water from. The highest cliffs were roped off but I did see one guy go past the ropes and jumped from the highest point. We climbed on the cliffs and jumped into the water for a couple of hours. Once we were tired of jumping we decided to go explore. As we were walking downstream I noticed that there was something moving in the water. As I got closer I realized it was a snake. Then I noticed that the snake wasn't alone. The snake had a big from by its leg. The frog was still alive and was trying to hop away but he could not get free from the snake. I threw a rock in the water near the snake to try and scare him and make him let go of the frog but the snake didn't care at all. The snake was hungry and he wasn't going to let go for anything. We ended up leaving the Shut Ins around three in the afternoon and went to a town i forgot the name of. We stopped at the gas station to buy Josh some new water shoes because his were too big so rocks were getting in and hurting his feet. There was a fireworks stand out front so we bought a bunch of bottle rockets and smoke bombs. After that we went down the street to an ice cream shop. We sat inside the air conditioning and ate our ice cream. It was amazing. Once we finished our ice cream we headed back to the cabin. Everyone was pretty beat once we got back that everyone went a took a nap besides Alan and I. We played games until everyone got up again. Once everyone got up from their naps we got back in our swim trunks and headed back out into the river. We went miles up the river this time. We would find and nice spot to swim, stay there for a while, then we would continue upstream. We ended up going so far that we didn't want to continue going