I was looking at this drawing from our 2012 festival that Amelia Hunter made for our brochure. It’s pretty darn cute and I was wondering if our chalk artist (Amy Hall) had ever considered adding this moment to her creation at the festival. I wasn’t sure she had ever been lucky enough to see it in person, it’s a pretty rare moment in time. Even I have only have a handful of memories of this delight.
Young kits get rides when they are learning to dive and not yet strong swimmers. Special circumstances can can make it more common. Lots of helpful yearlings. A widowed beaver (like when mom died) and a long unsafe passage to get to the pond that is farther to swim for young ones than usual. Rusty Cohn found a new beaver family in Napa last year and got very very lucky so I sent lots of photos to Amy.
