Wed. morning I left Bham with several caver friends to Arkansas to paddle on the Buffalo River.   It's about a 10 hr. drive.   We arrived at the Mt Hersey take-out and set up camp.  
Some of our group had to work and didn't start driving until 5:30 pm, so they got into camp in the middle of the night.  
In the morning we packed up everything and drove to the put-in at Pruitt.   An outfitter offloading boats and boaters at Hersey told us it was too low to run the section we chose.   This proved well for us because we only encountered a couple of other boaters on our journey, yet never had to portage our boats.  
I was paddling in the driver's seat of an Old Town canoe.   The Buffalo is very beautiful with tall bluffs and lots of swimming holes.
A handy rope swing or two...
We camped on an island.  

The water was cool and very very clear.