New Trashpaddler on SuAsCo Waters

Late this morning I was joined by my grandson, John, for some SuAsCo paddling in the vicinity of Egg Rock.  In the picture at left we are enroute to Concord's Old North Bridge.  John enjoyed paddling close to the many painted turtles that were basking in the sun this last day of July.  At one point, he came upon this chipmunk that seemed to be hanging with the turtles...

John did the chipmunk one better by actually "counting coup" on a turtle.
Observing the turtles brought us close to some floating trash.  John espied this errant plastic bottle which became the first piece of trash he would remove from the river...

Soon the bottle was out of the river and under his bungee...

and John couldn't hide his satisfaction.

After paddling a bit of each SuAsCo river, we landed and John stood beside our trash haul of 9 pieces...

There were 7 recyclable containers (2 redeemable) and 2 pieces of rubbish (disk drive and plastic bag).
YTD total = 4094.

The International Society of Trashpaddlers has a new member.  Can this force be stopped?!...