Crawdad in the Assabet

The inscription at Egg Rock was found to be high and dry at the start of a lazy ascent of the Assabet River yesterday afternoon.  The river is already at water levels more typical of late summer.



At the Leaning Hemlocks the other inscribed rock (in memory of George Bartlett) was found to also be in a dry and parched condition...

Just before reaching Spencer Brook I came upon this upside-down and partially-submerged crawdad...

Pretty sure it's a Crawdad Jon boat made by Coleman back in the 1980s and 90s.  Looked to be in "not too bad shape" with a registration decal from 1990.
The only possible former occupant found in the area was this guy...

...and he wasn't talkin'.

Some recent blowdowns were found beyond where the former Reformatory Branch railroad bridge once stood...

Trash was mostly of a benthic nature...

 

 

...and included 2 coke bottles: one from the early 1940s and the other from 1951.  Both were laying on the bottom, mid-stream beneath the Leaning Hemlocks.