Flooding. Unbelievable flooding. The water has not been this high since April, we could not get anywhere close to where most of the pitfall traps were placed. The one site the river was moving very swiftly past the structure that has come to be known as 'The Shrine to Knotweed' aka 'The Shrine.' It is a raised spiral platform in the middle of the woods on the island that has been neglected for whatever its intended purpose and is heavily overgrown with knotweed. The whole island is overgrown with knotweed. Hence, 'The Shrine.' It was a trip for going through the motions, it was chilly and the air was thick with lingering moisture and fog. Just cool enough and wet enough that there were not very many bugs out. 4 more trips to go now. Earlier in the season I thought by now we would be in our usual drought conditions and there would be large swaths of cobble beds to collect off of. Silly me.