Whoo-Whoop! #3
Mighty Quapaw Best of 2021 (Part 3)
River Time, LMRD #857, Tuesday, Jan 18, 2022
Continuing downstream, with part 3 of the long, meandering adventure of Quapaw Canoe Company in 2021, with paintings & photos…
Our youngest paddler of 2021 was 1-year old Simona…
Bachelor Trips…
Community Canoes…
Several new guides appeared out of the sun…
“Gar” Wilson Sisk, a graduate of our Mississippi River Summer Camp…
Two voyageurs came out of the icy north to join us…
Solange and Jean-Canôt — true voyageurs they are!
Voyageur Canoe Captains Leon Pantenburg (on-call) and “Monk” Scott Sones (On-Call, helps Layne with Quapaw Vicksburg)…
Also On-Call guide Kelly McGinnis, of the Nantahala Outdoor Center…
And Mississippi Matthew Burdine arrived out of the Swampy Heart of the Muddy Mississippi Delta, via Colorado & Utah whitewater Canyons…
…with 2 new voyageur canoes (29 feet long, seating for 14), to open up his own branch of the Quapaw Canoe Company (to be announced in 2022!)…
…to join us “crusty old turtles,” Mark River Peoples, Chief Guide since 2011
…And Chief of Many Hats, Driftwood Johnnie (first got muddy toes in 1982, on a 5-month raft trip, and now the river flows through his blood)…
“Smooth” Driver (and Dancer!), Ellis “Brother E” Coleman…
Our Mascot, Osa Negra, Blackie Bear…
(…whooops! We’ve hit size limit on this mailer…. Best of 2021 will be continued tomorrow with Whoo-whoop! #4… )
Love it!! Great work my friend! Especially love the photo of the guides with Mississippi Matthew's new Clipper!
The partnership will be a great goal for 2022, and part of my team will be in this next weekend to help with a very serious bird study. Covid climbed aboard several of those households, so they're recovering and 'chomping at the bit' to get back in the field.
I never met Matt, but his grandmother 'Baby Jane' and great aunt 'Pinkie' were very dear to me - great mentors. Matt is carrying on a lovely legacy and will make his family proud. Tell him that 'Charlie Boy' is probably smiling down on him as well, and if he's not sure about who that is, to ask his father!