{"id":3377,"date":"2021-06-01T07:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T11:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2021-06-02T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T15:52:28","slug":"kayaking-the-roanoke-river-at-jamesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2021\/kayaking-the-roanoke-river-at-jamesville\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking the Roanoke River at Jamesville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stephen and I drove out to his home town of Jamesville to check on his family’s properties there. It’s about 3\/4 of the way from Raleigh to OBX. Classic old town America.

After we visited his parcels, we hit the Roanoke, and saw fish jumping, a great blue heron, a kingfisher, turtles among the natural lily pads (beautiful), what looked to be a copperhead fall from a tree and take a gentle upstream swim, and a pack of turkey vultures enjoying a catfish head on the shore, ha. A beautiful natural river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stephen and I drove out to his home town of Jamesville to check on his family’s properties there. It’s about 3\/4 of the way from Raleigh to OBX. Classic old town America. After we visited his parcels, we hit the Roanoke, and saw fish jumping, a great blue heron, a kingfisher, turtles among the natural … Continue reading Kayaking the Roanoke River at Jamesville<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,76],"tags":[114,206],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-my-rowdy-friends","category-travel","tag-kayaking","tag-roanoke-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-St","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2258,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2017\/tar-river-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":3377,"position":0},"title":"Tar River Life","author":"m","date":"August 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Dork sighting.... 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