Old English Outfitters

Kayaking with Betwixt the River Outfitters

MARION, SC (WMBF) – For 17 years, Betwixt the River Outfitters has been bringing water sports to many, giving everyone a chance to experience great bodies of water in our area.

If you’re looking for adventure in the Pee Dee, Betwixt the River Outfitters has everything you need to satisfy your thirst and your outdoor wish is their command.

“We offer tours on several local rivers,” said Giles Page, owner of Betwixt the River Outfitters. “Canoe and Kayak tours, [moonlight] dinner paddles, some camping trips. Kind of whatever you want.”

Betwixt is an Old English word meaning “between”, signifying “between the rivers” the Pee Dee is so well known for.

“They say you should travel and see the world and see what everything else is like,” Kayaker Robbie Taylor said. “Well, you should also do things around home. This is what we should be proud of to have an environment like this and come out and enjoy it. That’s what it’s here for.”

While some enjoy these water sports for the exercise, others take a more laid back approach.

“It’s a natural stress reliever. You come out here and you can get away, relax, and if you don’t want to paddle you can just float.”

It’s been years since WMBF News Anchor Heather Biance has been out paddling with a kayak, and managed to get caught up in a tree. She eventually got the hang of steering, and was able to soak it all in.

Out in the element, many can truly experience nature the way it’s meant to be experienced – with the sun shining, the wind blowing and a solitude that can’t be found very often.

“My favorite thing is definitely being outdoors and when you’re in a kayak, you don’t have the sound of a motor. [If] there’s not many people around, we can go out and be completely by ourselves.”

Another unique experience from Page is their moonlit river paddle. Guests can go out in the river for a few hours, stop and cook dinner on a bank or a sandbar and then head back to the landing once the sun has set.

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A native of Piqua, and graduate of Ohio State University, Sonny Fulks pitched four varsity seasons for the baseball Buckeyes from 1971 through ’74, and furthered his baseball career as a minor league league umpire for seven years, working in the Florida State League (A), the Southern League (AA), and the American Association (AAA). He formerly authored the Fanfile and WPTW.com sports websites, and is the photo editor of Gettysburg Magazine, published by Morningside Books, in Dayton, Ohio. Involved with a number of writing projects, he’s currently writing a book on former Ohio State baseball and hall of fame coach, Marty Karow.

Now, there aren’t as many active squirrel hunters out there as there once was.  We’ve grown way too sophisticated to go to the woods and shoot, skin, clean and fry a dinner of fried squirrel.  It’s easier and more socially acceptable to simply go out for food.

But there are a few…those whose dad or granddad took them at some point in their life to the woods and taught them how to shoot, how to clean, and how to cook, and a whole lot more.  No Dr. Phil, just you and your dad and a shotgun.  Please…let me share.

This will be the first squirrel season of my life that I won’t have my dad to share it.  He died in May, but I guarantee you that the first thing I’ll miss tomorrow is a call or comment from him pertaining to going to the woods.

Pop loved to squirrel hunt.  And up until the week before his death he was still telling me stories of being in the woods when he was a kid, shooting six grays out of one tree the first year he and my mom were married, and how he was back at the house and had ‘em cleaned and ready for the skillet before she was even out of bed.  You don’t forget stories like that.

When I was ten he started taking me, without a gun, of course.  He was adamant that until I was old enough to understand the responsibilities of carrying a gun that I would not.  And for some reason fourteen was his magic number.

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