Trying to take this picture was probably more interesting than the picture itself!

My fiancee spotted this boat, or what's left of it, floating down the river as we were driving downtown to walk the dogs and take some pictures http://www.pbase.com/ccasey/image/155031253. I knew that I could get ahead of it if I hurried into one of the parks along the river so off we went. I parked the car and started making my way across a large open area littered with mud, geese, and of course the carpet of geese turds that they leave behind. The geese have obviously been fed, they are so bold that I'm walking, sometimes almost jogging, with in 3-5 feet of them and they just sort of waddle side ways. Really slowed me down. I make my way out to the bank of the river only to see this boat about 100 yards downstream from me...it was in open water and the river is swollen from the rain so if I wanted that picture then running was in order.

There were several people sitting in their cars back along the parking lot of this park. I can only imagine what they must have been thinking as this happened. Out across this field is me, camera in hand, splashing through this water logged grass and literally having to run around the geese who seemed genuinely disgruntled with my disturbance. I finally got ahead of, or at least broadside, the boat and was able to take a few pictures. ....and then I had to walk all the way back across that field and listen to the geese bitch at me again.