Monday, September 8, 2014

A Fair Day for Fairhaven Bay


T'was a beautiful morning for a paddle down to Fairhaven Bay.  I started from Sherman's Bridge in Wayland and the view down the Sudbury River just after launching was splendid (at left).

Earlier plans for launching at Little Farms Road in Framingham were scratched upon finding way too little water.
  
At Pantry Brook the low levels revealed multiple beaver dams between the sheet piling and the river...
At today's levels it's hard to imagine having paddled over the sheet piling this past spring.

The only bridge passed under today...

Shortly after the bridge, Fairhaven Bay was reached...
...and its small island...
...where lunch was enjoyed while trying to decipher these patterns in twig and stone ...

Two fairly old bottles were liberated from the muck today...

The one on the left is a 1-pint Bostonia Beverages registered soda bottle.  It was pretty rugged and had probably been filled and refilled many times at their plant in Natick...possibly dates from the 1930s.
The bottle on the right is a whiskey bottle embossed on the bottom with Warren F. Witherell Co. Boston and may date from around 1917.

The rest of today's small haul...

There were 18 recyclable containers (6 redeemable) and 12 pieces of miscellaneous rubbish. 
YTD = 4263

Oldest piece found today may have been the wrought iron oar lock.  Perhaps it came off of Henry David's boat???

2 comments:

gimpadelic said...

Hey Trashpaddler, I don't know if you're still out there, or receiving notifications about this blog post.... I stumbled on your post looking for family relics. Warren F Witherell Co. was my great great grandfather's store in Boston.

Al said...

Hello gimpadelic, Still around and encountering the occasional old bottle such as the Warren F. Witherell one mentioned in this post. Good luck in finding out more about you ancestor. Al