Spent the afternoon on the Paw Paw river yesterday following over an inch of rain the day before. The upstream part was harder than usual but at least there were new ways around some of the logjams with the high water.
But the thing I had a hard time finding a few times was the river. With both river banks flooded, there were side channels and current everywhere plus the river does 180 degree turns in many places so several times coming back downstream I just lost the river and had to just stop (as in pic below) and go hunt for it.
I have spent a fair amount of time paddling the marshes of coastal SC. There are many small creeks off the major rivers where a lot of flotsam is pushed by the tide. Dead critters are not unusual and I always hope I’ll never find a human body.
Haven’t yet.
I came across one a couple of years ago on my daily paddle (St Johns river - near downtown Jacksonville).
Pre-dawn, paddling near shore - I noticed something on shore - at first it looked like a dead animal, getting close I noticed it was a body, clearly deceased (I didn’t want to get out to investigate further).
There is a coast guard station across the river from where I was - I paddled over and informed them.
Looks like it wrapped around something. Per exiftool the coordinates on 4/23 were 42.328599, -83.825591 - past it to mapquest or earth. Your uploaded jpg may have the exif info stripped out.
