Sunday, July 12, 2015

A Buttoned-Up Sudbury

The sun was just beginning to illuminate the inscription at Egg Rock when I began paddling up the Sudbury River early this morning.  With a 20 mile paddling event now less than 2 weeks ahead it was time to get in some distance training.  For me that means getting to the point where I can forget that I'm actually paddling.  Still work to do on that front.

Thanks to recent rains the river is sporting plenty of water and high- summer conditions reign.

The stretch of the Sudbury in Concord was smooth as glass...
The Route 2 bridge...
Lee's Bridge...

Pantry Brook was making a fair contribution...


In most places the riversides were decorated with the white blossoms of the buttonbush...
...which drew me in for a closer look...
...and then closer still...
Not sure but I suspect this is their peak time.

The white water lily blossoms are also looking fine...

Adding a splash of color are the pickerelweed blossoms...

One rare encounter this morning was finding trash at the small boat landing on Fairhaven Bay's Brooke Island...
This spot is only accessible by boat and is usually found to be clean as a whistle.

Still, all in all, the river between Egg Rock and Sherman's Bridge was relatively trash free.  What was recovered...

...had a shore-fishing theme.

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