After paddling so much lately on narrow river waters, today's sunny skies and light winds provided a nice opportunity to follow Moe Howard's advice and "spread out!" on the comparatively wide waters of Lake Cochituate. I launched into the Upper Lake at the DCR cartop boat launch off of Route 30 and after checking out the lake's upper area, stopped for lunch in this cove leading to the lake's outlet Cochituate Brook...
This is the structure controlling the outlet and a lower, secondary structure can be seen in the distance...
From here the brook travels a relatively short distance to the point where it enters the Sudbury River in Saxonville.
Leaving the cove I noticed this cormorant perched rather high in a tree...
I paddled through the tunnels under first Route 30 and then US 90 into the Middle Lake and, after slipping through the keyhole arch, into the Lower Lake. Before paddling under Route 9, I stopped to admire Boston Scientific's man-made waterfall...
At the small island in the upper part of the Lower Lake, I turned around, after seeing yet another tree perched cormorant and a red-tailed hawk.
Leaving Lower Lake I again passed through the keyhole...
Passing from Middle Lake to Upper Lake, I passed under US 90...
Reaching my takeout location I had recovered 33 pieces of trash. Of these 18 were recyclable (7 redeemable) and 15 were rubbish...
My YTD total stands at 1879.
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