No Traffic Here

With today being the busiest travel day of the year I chose to paddle under Route 495 rather than drive upon it.  The photo at left was taken as I returned, downriver, from a pre-Thanksgiving day paddle on the Assabet River.

I'd launched from Chapin Rd. in Hudson where the short inlet was iced over.  From there I paddled upstream to Bridge Rd. in Berlin where things got just a little too shallow.  Paddling in a westward direction meant dealing with the sun's low angle intensity until reaching Bridge Rd....

The trip back downriver was with that same low-angle sun providing a back-lit effect...

Despite the day's cold start with temps near 20 degrees F, the afternoon had warmed nicely into the 40s.

Some trash encountered along the way...