Thursday, June 28, 2012

Another Pleasant Daybreak on the Sudbury River



Early on this stellar, late June morning, I picked up where last Tuesday's upriver journey ended near Sherman's Bridge (aka Thunder Road) in Wayland.  I'd no sooner launched and began paddling upriver, than I came across this white-tailed deer who was taking in the sun's rise...

Then around the next bend, a stand-up paddler was also enjoying some early morning time on the river...

This type of paddling (SUP) seems to be growing in leaps and bounds.

The river was its usual beautiful self all the way up to the old Central Mass RR trestle in Wayland, where I turned around and began the trip downriver...
 
Two other kayakers I encountered informed me that the Pelham Island Road bridge was not presently navigable by boats due to the construction work.

Most of today's trash was found in the area of Rt. 27 at the bridge and the nearby River Rd. boat launch.  By comparison, the boat launch at Rt. 20 looked trash free which is most likely due to the trash receptacle maintained by the group "Big Heart - Little Feet".

Back at Sherman's Bridge the day's haul spread out in the sun...

There were 25 recyclable containers (15 redeemable) and 20 pieces of miscellaneous rubbish such as plastic bags, and numerous "chip" packages.  YTD = 3437


I returned home to historic news relating to the United States Supreme Court's ruling on Affordable Health Care.  Listening to all the political posturing reminds me of when I was much younger and heard older family members grumbling about  that "goddamn social security" calling it nothing short of socialism.  Hopefully, it would be difficult to find many folks wanting to repeal the social security mandate these days.   

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