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Description: Sure, it's pretty obvious why Sunshine is named Sunshine. But if you had any lingering doubts, this small section
of topo map should pound it in pretty good if you have a look at it.

The rapid called Sunshine is one topographic click south from the confluence of Pulliam Creek and the Green River,
and the contour interval is 20ft. on this map.

The Narrows as a run is said to be 2.88 miles long. Although no actual scale is shown above as I had to leave that part off the map,
from the county line to Pulliam Creek is very close to 1/3 of a mile according to my ruler. For a reference, a viewing the Polk County
GIS aerial photo shows the county line to be crossing the Green exactly where the log is in Go Left.

After another small stretch down from Sunshine the map shows the river splitting with an island in the middle. That upper channel
is a dry stretch of riverbed now, beginning around the rapid "Triple Cracks" (also, the Green River Cove Trail heads downstream from
here, on river left. See the Groove Tube rapid description for a link to the trail map). Another one of those dry channels begins at
Frankenstein on river left, but it didn't make it on this map.

Big Hungry Creek pays tribute to El Rio Verde at the beginning of the run, as shown in the top left.

After the first long stretch of shoals downstream of Sunshine, it's Camp Creek that comes in from river right as the river bends to the left.

To see the whole map, go to this Libre Map Project page for North Carolina, scroll down and open the Cliffield Mountain Quad map as a TIFF file.

Author:	USGS		River:	Green Narrows, NC
Subject:	A bunch of squiggly lines		Rapid:	All your favorites
Date:			Level:	Can't tell for sure
Size:	517.94KB		Format:	tiff
AW Photo ID:	42048		AW Reach ID:

Level Legend:

Running

Below Minimum Recommended Flow

Above Maximum Recommended Flow

Unknown

Descriptions of reaches with River Name in bold have been verified by a regional StreamTeam member.

State	River Name/Section	Class	Level	Rel. Level	Updated
NC	Green— 2. Green Narrows	IV-V+

Why is Sunshine Named Sunshine?