Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Sudbury River - Little Farms to Indian Pt. & Return


Today wasn't quite the splendid day that yesterday was, but it was still OK for a trash patrol from Little Farms downriver to Indian Point and back. Sunblock wasn't necessary. Water levels in the river are rising and the flow, in many places, was chugging right along!
After launching, I paddled into the downstream end of the oxbow and paddled up to this beaver built barrier...

I returned to the river's main channel and passed under the MWRA aqueduct and Stone Bridge Road. Just a little downriver from the old stone bridge, I came upon this escaped canoe...

Wildlife seen today were several groups of wood ducks, a lone blue heron and a lone belted kingfisher.
Enjoyed listening to James Keelaghan's rendition of Gordon Lightfoot's Canadian Railroad Trilogy. I'm beginning to prefer this version more than the original. "A drink to the living, a toast to the dead....There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run, when the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun, long before the white man and long before the wheel, when the green dark forest was too silent to be real, and many are the dead men too silent to be real"
At Indian Point I turned around and began the trip back upriver. Upon reaching Little Farms, the ship's company went ashore and today's batch of refugees gathered alongside my boat's hull for this photo...

The trash count for today was 95 pieces. Of these, 56 were recyclable (22 redeemable) and 39 were miscellaneous rubbish such as styrofoam and plastic bags. Today's most egregious piece was a nearly full 1-quart plastic container of "stump remover". My YTD total stands at 4531.

1 comment:

Lis said...

Wow - I count 3 empty "energy drink" containers yet the drinkers didn't have the energy to dispose of them properly. Guess those drinks must not work.