Our 'Covid Spring' paddling season has come to a close and it'll be forever remembered by me as the strangest I've experienced...a season where the earliest birds really did get the worm. During these days of uncertainty, social distancing, and mask wearing who'd have guessed that the one thing we could reliably count upon would be ideal weather. Of course weather this good (without rain) does have a downside as the photo above showing the dam on the Nashua River in Ayer attests.
The Nashua became one of my frequent haunts this spring joining others in my circuit such as:
The Assabet...
The Squannacook/Nashua confluence...
The lower Squannacook...
...where I encountered the 'Sage of the Squannacook'...
The sloughs of the Nashua in Groton...
...where an eastern kingbird made his circuit of the yellow lillies...
The Charles between Dover and Needham...
The Concord between Carlisle and Bedford and...
The Sudbury on a rare cloudy day...
This spring also provided an opportunity to join fellow members of a winter hiking society (Erik, Jules, Jonathan, Conrad, and the society's founder, Joe) for a couple of aquatic hikes:
Hope we didn't scare anyone when we approached the take-outs...
Trash has remained light during these Covid times with this small haul being typical...
One recent exception...
Another artist's riverside mural...
This paddler is glad to have paddled through the Covid Spring and looks forward to more of the same during the upcoming summer paddling season. So long as the State of Massachusetts sticks to its plan of using 4 key metrics in setting the course, I'm cautiously optimistic that paddlers will continue having safe paddles and landfalls...
2 comments:
If paddlers don't do it nobody else will. Super community spirit :)
Thanks "Unknown"
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