Ticks Gars and Memories
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The seventh in a series of fourteen books by Abbie Joules about her brother, Bendigo, as they grew up on their hard-scrabble farm in east Texas. In this episode, Ben uses the excuse of a high school psychology project on memory to justify a three day canoe paddle down Big Sandy Creek in the Big Thicket wilderness. Abbie, who loves to canoe and adores her older brother, needs no excuse. Together they test themselves as they attempt to remember everything they see, and as the days go by the wilderness tests their ability to live off the land. In the end, they learn more about themselves than they ever thought they would, and gain a new appreciation for the creatures they share the world with.
Michael Allender
I was born in Dalhart, Texas, received degrees at Texas A&M in Wildlife Science and Psychology, and did post graduate work at Utah State in ethology. I worked as a professional photographer and wildlife artist, and authored "The Guadalupe Mountains Of Texas", published by the University of Texas Press, a coffee table book of a west Texas national park. I then worked for 25 years as a wood craftsman and entrepreneur. I currently live in Redmond, Oregon, and avail myself of every opportunity to paddle the wild rivers of the Pacific Northwest, from California to northern Canada and Alaska.
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Ticks Gars and Memories - Michael Allender
TICKS, GARS AND MEMORIES
by
Michael Allender
Copyright 2014 Michael Allender
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(The seventh in a series of fourteen stories)
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Ticks, Gars and Memories
(Story # 7)
Like most of our adventures, there were just the two of us. Ben always thought that one or two people was best for exploring life's most important lessons. This time he’d taken a notion to paddle our tandem canoe along twenty miles of slow moving water in The Big Thicket of east Texas, about a hard hour's drive east of our little dirt farm. Might take the better part of three days, he told Dad. Poking around would best describe how I viewed it. Soft exploration.
Hard core living off the land is more what Ben had in mind. Survival of the fittest. He wanted a place where we could lose our farm identity and robe ourselves in the rough cloth of wildness and mystery. He didn't put it quite like that, however. No guns, no traps, and no frog gigs this time, Sis,
he told me. A little grub and our wits. We'll see what we can do with 'em.
If it was all right with Ben, it was okay by me. I knew Ben to be woods savvy.
The Thicket consists of scattered patches of old growth forests, just north of Beaumont near the Louisiana border. A big chunk of it is swampland where looking up through the interlaced trees and vines can engender thoughts of unexplored jungle complete with critters like howler monkeys, jaguars, and anacondas the size of fire hoses. In reality there's nothing more dangerous