I’ve posted this Spoon’s Pond (near rakkity’s place in NH)sequence before, but this time I’ve animated it. Matt and Robby, typically potential energy to Joe’s kinetic, are all lounging on a floating dock, less than half a football field from the land based dock on which Adam and I stand.

The most natural thing to do on this dock, besides tossing your friends off, is to haul the cinder block anchor up from the stinky bottom. Even I’ve done that, but I’ve never taken the next logical step, which is to realize I now have a raft Tom Finn might envy.

In the first frame, the anchor’s up and the boys are lulling around, though Matt innocently swishes the water with his left paddle, er, hand. In the second frame, a light shines in Robby’s head as he looks toward shore. In the third, he and Matt up tempo, but Joe has yet to catch on. In the fourth, the energy engine kicks in and the front of the dock lifts out of the water.
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raft trip