Back to Bogastow

 

It'd been awhile since my last visit to the meadows region of the Charles River where the river runs between Millis and Medfield, MA.  Yesterday provided a chance though late in the season.  After launching from  just downriver of the Dover Road bridge I headed toward the old railroad trestle pictured above noting it having recently received some much needed TLC.  Some new boards at the decking, a few new cross-braces, and a couple of concrete-bolstered piers...

 Within sight of the trestle sits one very lonely looking Bay Colony locomotive...

...patiently awaiting it's next trip atop the trestle above the river...

It was less than 2 miles downriver to the confluence where I took a left into Bogastow Brook for the short trip to South End Pond...

 Aside from 2 fishermen in a small boat and this blue heron...

...I had the place to myself. 

This hawk I'm guessing to be an immature broad-winged was also seen in Bogastow Brook...

A trip further up Bogastow Brook was cut short by a beaver dam, so it was back out to the Charles and some upriver paddling to see if another tributary, the Stop River, was accessible.  Surprisingly one of the 2 portals under Causeway Road was wide open...

I passed through with hopes of making it to Devilsfoot Island and got to within sight of the island when yet another beaver dam...

...convinced me to turn back.

Trash gathered up along the way...