On this afternoon, we kept noticing that the clouds in the west were building up and looking quite menacing and the west was where we were headed for our hotel. The clouds were high and dark and eventually started leaking rain.

1. You can see that we eventually drove right into the rain. The rain drops were big but the temperature was still warm, so it was fine with me as it seemed to cool us down.

2. Our rooster-tail boats also came fully equipped for the rain, as you can see in the second photo.

3. We made it back into the narrows and the water weeds and we were speeding along just fine when I noticed that a particularly narrow passage didn’t have an opening just ahead of us. Sure enough, we propelled ourselves up onto the weeds and were high and dry. The boat engine was out of the water and we were stuck.

4. Our companions came by and hooked up a rope to tow us off of the pile of water weeds.

5. After several attempts, they finally succeeded and we were headed for home.