Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Between Thunder

Seems like every other paddle includes thunderstorms these days.  Last Friday I got chased off the Sudbury River by such a storm whereas this past Sunday my daughter and I enjoyed idyllic paddling conditions on the Concord River in Bedford (above photo).  Then today it was back to watching those high-topped clouds approach from the west.  Before they got too serious I managed to get in a short paddle on the Assabet River to Fort Meadow Brook where the portal was found to be wide open...
 ...and allowed passage up as far as the old railroad trestle...

En route to the trestle the brook was found to be sporting this plastic 55-gallon drum...
...which may have previously served as flotation for some of the piping beneath the trestle.

I made it back to Magazu's Landing just as the first claps of thunder rang out to the north.  In a tree I noticed a critter too big to be a squirrel looking in the storm's direction...
Pretty sure it's a woodchuck and it's the first one I've ever seen in a tree.  He was about 8 feet up and stayed so still I began to think it was just a broken-off branch.

The approaching storm had the herons acting a little weird as well...


Some trash encountered along the way today...




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