What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
For those of you who had trouble imagining how intense our rafting trip on the Tenorio River (class III-IV) in Costa Rica was, I offer this embarrasing photo. It's hard to believe I even own a kayak.