Cool Assabet/Hot Fairhaven

This morning the entire text of the Egg Rock inscription was above water indicating that water levels have dropped about 6 inches since my last visit on 5/7.  That translates into more shore-front property for these new editions to the Canada geese population...

... and afforded a shady spot for this white-tailed buck to wile away the afternoon...

Debris falling into the river was traced back to this pileated woodpecker...

Work has begun in West Concord on preparing another section of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail.  The old New Haven Railroad grade has been cleared to the point where a bridge may once again span the Assabet...

Today's haul of trash...

Unlike today's cool temperatures last Thursday was day two of our first heat wave of the season.  I found some relief from the 94 degrees on the Sudbury River and Fairhaven Bay.  I moved slowly as my acclimation to high heat is still in progress...

...but I'm not complaining.  I'll take heat over cold any day!

Found some temporary shade with a great view of the bay...

From the bay's northeast corner I paddled a bit in the general direction of Walden Pond...

...until stopped by a beaver dam...

 

...where I noted some flow coming through the dam.  At that point I was only about half a mile from Walden Pond.

Not much trash on Thursday...