Thursday, May 26, 2016

Great Bay's Little Brother

After getting my first look at New Hampshire's Great Bay estuary last spring I'd been hoping to experience more of it this year.  When a training seminar brought me to the area this past Wednesday I found the forces of the universe (in this case the tides) were perfectly aligned for my purposes.

My boat hit the water 1.5 hours before high tide and I headed north from Adams Point...
...planning to explore the area north of Furber Strait shown on charts as Little Bay.

Just past Fox Point I reached the area where the Oyster and Bellamy Rivers enter from the west, and looking to the east the bay's outlet into the Piscataqua River could be seen...

Veering northwest brought me to the Scammell Bridge...
...which, after passing under, brought me into the Bellamy River and up to Clements Point where I turned about and headed back. 

Most of my return trip was in slack water which allowed for some gunkholing into pleasant spots such as this...

Before landing at Adams Point I passed through Furber Strait for a peek into the area of the bay I'd paddled last spring...
...where a distant Footman Island tempted.  However, as the tide had turned an hour before, the bay was now draining in earnest and my afternoon foray came to an end.

Very little in the way of trash was encountered (same as last time)...

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