Rum Island

Do you remember a time when tiny, almost non-existent dirt roads lead the adventurer to a small break into the woods, that led to the river, a beautiful sandy beach (river sand), and you could swim and enjoy the clear water spot. Then you creep through the woods a little further, and you’d find a beautiful blue hole, a hugely overwhelming site every time you see it. May be the steam rising off the boil from the temperature equalizing. Then as you approach you see large fish in a school around the spring boil, patrolling the rim…. Slowly you stick your toe in and feel the breathtaking temperature of the spring water ( 72* all year long) dive in quickly to avoid the long drown out lightning bolt of cold streak through your very being. Dive in and catch your breath again to swim over the awesome boil, amazing the cold clear fresh water pumping out of a deep crevasse in the earth it’s the most amazing thing I’d ever seen! You swim across the center and your breath is taking again the most amazing feeling in the world and your swimming in it..brings to mind the old time baptisms’ you are totally in a religious moment at one with everything and at awe about everything overwhelming for lack of better terms for such a moment you will never experience. You drink a gulp of the water to take in and quince your thirst from the hot summer and your spirit swells within you…..now you’re part of the water of nature and of the universal powers that be; you are brave and swim towards the dark tea stained deep river to fully appreciate and take it all in…. as you approach the river’s edge you see where the clear cold spring water meets the dark river…. it is somewhat caramel colored and you swim into it and feel the cold and the warm water mixing… the cold is rushing into the river so fast it takes your breath again, so you press harder.. and swim ,deeper to get across this gushing turbulent stream of cold water and coast over to the river’s edge, while trying to catch your breath again and take all of this experience in, you feel the warmth of the river over your feet and feel compelled to slip off into that dark deep it cuddles you like a warm mothers blanket wrapping you in its arms and recharges you to go jump in the deep cold spring again and maybe if really brave explore the caves and aquatic life that live on the edge….plants with apple snails and frog eggs up and down the stocks.