What's up, Oyster River Floaters. We're down here on the river right now. I wanted to make this video and share a couple of tips, some knowledge, some things that might be happening in the future with the river this summer. What it might look like. Hmm expansive waters. It's gonna be nice and safe for everybody. So this year the summer season is kind of constricted on what we can do. A lot of things are closed. I know the public pools are closed, but we have a lot of things that are open. Ponds, lakes, rivers. You want to stay away from canals, they're really dangerous. A lot of people can get hurt in those and they're not kept. They're not meant for people to be in them. We can project a little bit about what the float season might look like when it opens this year about how things have gone in the past. In the past we have things like the shuttle bus cost $3 a person. And at Barbara Park you can pay to park there and it costs $6 per car. Something funny about the Boise River is that it doesn't actually close. It doesn't have a floating season. Now the float season consists of just having Barbara Park pretty much set up their pumps. They also have the shuttle buses. Of course the tube and raft rantles, all the gear rantles, that starts when they open. But as far as the river goes, the river doesn't close. The river is open all year round. Just be cautious. It's really important to be safe no matter when, what time of year you're doing things like this. My biggest worry this year is crowding. I feel like there's going to be a lot of people coming down, just bumping into each other. I hope everybody knows how to swim. I know that when you rent gear it's required for you to have a life jacket. I'm sure one thing they're trying to figure out right now is the shuttle situation. That's really the most dangerous part where packing everybody into one little bus and carrying them around that that might not work this year. It takes about two and a half hours if you're on a small craft and just floating. I'm sure it can take less time. It doesn't want to kind of craft your own. My boat, it takes, it can take up to three, three and a half hours because it just slugs along whenever I get into some slow moving water. It seems to stop sometimes. You'll see that in the videos. When I float and stop and fish and swim, it can take anywhere from five to six hours. Right now at Barba Park the air is turned off. But I got my little pump from Walmart. I was able to air up my boat. It was definitely doable. If you have a tube or some kind of small raft, it is very, very simple to air them up. If you need to transport yourself to the manmore, some park, all you got to do is just park one car at the bottom, drive to the top and park. Get on and float and you'll have to either be able to take your whole party back up to the first car at Barba Park to pick that up or just send somebody the driver to go pick it up. If you plan on taking your children on the river, make sure they drink enough water. You lose a lot of water when you're out here on the water, under the sun, sweating. You lose a lot of moisture. So make sure that they get hydrated before getting on the river and while you're on the river, try to encourage them to drink water. Kids don't like to hydrate especially when they're out here doing this kind of thing. And it's important to drink plenty of water yourself. As an example, you can show them just really an excellent talent. So I know that anybody that is experienced enough knows how to swim, has their own gear, can come down here and enjoy, basically any part of the river any time of year, whenever they want. There's a lot to learn about this river when you're floating it as far as which way to go, where's the safest place to take the rapids. And I try to answer a lot of those questions in some of my other videos. Try to point out some spots to fish, some places to swim. I want people to enjoy themselves, keep the rivers clean and be safe while having as much fun as possible.