son's 1st trip on a boat

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Comment by Leo Nguyen on July 3, 2013 at 4:55pm

Great smiles of future master anglers.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on July 3, 2013 at 7:10am

One of my favorite literary passages comes from Kenneth Grahame's story, "The Wind in the Willows" - -

"This has been a wonderful day!" said he (The Mole), as the Rat shoved off and took to the sculls again. "Do you know, I`ve never been in a boat before in all my life."

"What?" cried the Rat, open-mouthed: "Never been in a--you never--well I--what have you been doing, then?"

"Is it so nice as all that?" asked the Mole shyly, though he was quite prepared to believe it was, as he leant back in his seat and surveyed the cushions, the oars, the rowlocks, all the fascinating fittings, and felt the boat sway lightly under him.

"Nice? It's the ONLY thing," said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke.

"Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING--absolute nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing," he went on dreamily: "messing--about--in--boats; messing...."

"Look ahead, Rat!" cried the Mole suddenly.

But, it was too late. The boat struck the bank full tilt. The dreamer, the joyous oarsman, lay on his back at the bottom of the boat, his heels in the air.

"--about in boats--or WITH boats," the Rat went on, composedly, picking himself up with a pleasant laugh. "In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."