It sucks an ass. My friend got a book from his girl at the time of creeks to kayak in around where we lived, and the section we took was listed as medium difficulty. I'm used to casually paddling around a lake with a couple mountain sodas and a few small creeks with a small current and a few small dips here and there, but this was borderline white water shit at points with scooting down 10 foot drops. I had to actually peel the fingers of my right hand off the paddle with my left hand a few times with how white knuckled I was.
Toward the end, the creek narrowed considerably, but got deeper but the current was still very strong. We came upon a tight S-curve with high banks which also had a big tree down in the middle at about head level by the bank. If you didn't have good enough speed, and couldn't stay tight at the curve, the current was just gonna push you right into the downed tree. Friend goes though after a few tries, and we weren't able to see each other afterwards. I fucked up my first attempt and got pushed against the tree, which tipped my kayak and I took in a bit of water. The current was too strong to go back, and the banks were too high to climb up so I couldn't dump any water. I tried again, with a bunch of water in my kayak, and once again got blasted into the tree and water just dumped into my kayak. I wound up ditching it and clung to the tree, but the current was strong enough that water was blasting over my face regardless of how I turned my head. My buddy and I still had no visual contact and I could only yell that I had to ditch and swim. I reluctantly went under water to get under the tree and fortunately got caught up in some brush on the other side I could grab onto and pull myself up. I found some footing to pull myself up onto a bank and wound up shimmying across the downed tree to free my kayak from some brush under water so my friend could catch it a few yards up stream. All of the cards in my wallet were shot as well as the FOB to my car. Oddly enough the walkie-talkie I brought still worked. My fawkin' PB&J and trail mix were shot too.
Where we at with your paddle breaking in a creek in the middle of fucking nowhere? I found a sewage treatment plant while walking through the woods trying to find a road. It was dumping into the creek I was in too.