Once the logs were cleared from the path to Cooney Bay I put my kayak on wheels and launched the boat on the river.    The goal was to paddle upstream to the sand-silt islands where the pelicans were.    Paddling upstream was okay, but there is a lot of very shallow water so it was hard to get close to the pelicans on the other side of the river.    I got close enough for a few shots with a telephoto lens, but it is very hard to hold the longer lens steady for the distances required, so only a handful of shots were clear enough to share.

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After the upstream paddle, I floated downstream to Cooney Bay and paddled a loop route on Kamloops Lake.

The launch area was very muddy and the path to the shoreline was narrow and it wound through many logs (pulling an 18 foot kayak), but once on the lake, the paddling was excellent.