As the summer temperatures drag on, let’s take a break to visit a nice, cold North Georgia river.
The Ellijay River flows from the Blue Ridge Mountains into Ellijay. One day last week, Bernie Kuhajda from the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute was in the river, just down the street from the elementary school and city hall.
“I play with fish,” Kuhajda, who’s an aquatic conservation biologist, said. “That’s my title. I’m the fish-playing-with-guy.”
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