With another heat wave upon us this past week I found the best way to beat the heat was by getting out on the water as close to sunrise as possible. Doing so allowed me to be off the water before the hottest part of the day. The early morning starts led to watching the sun rise over the trees this morning on the Nashua River at Petapawag in Groton, MA...
Fortunate for the deer I wasn't a train.
While the tree-lined shores of the Merrimack River offer considerable shade, its Stoney Brook tributary provides a different sort of shade encountered while paddling beneath the length of the pictured mill building...
Back on the Merrimack I paddled down to Pawtucket Falls, a location that played a significant role in Native American history as well as in setting the border between the states of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In 1741 the border between the 2 states was set to be 3 miles north of the Merrimack River from its mouth to a point 3 miles north of the "Great Falls". From that point the border eventually leaves the Merrimack and runs westward to New York state.
Prior to the arrival of English colonists it is said that Passaconaway, the powerful leader of the Pennacook federation, maintained his wigwam about where this church stands today...
Passaconaway's lodge was near the head of the falls and close to the fish ladder, perhaps suggesting he knew where the most fish would be caught...
Shade was also in good supply this morning on the Nashua River...
Tuesday's paddle on the Assabet River was under a cloudy sky where these sunseekers nonetheless were reaching out...
The two fledged Assabet River eaglets were present and accounted for...staying 4 trees over from the nest...
The week's trash:
Tuesday's included a single-mast sailboat missing its sail...
Thursday's was heavy on plastic...
Saturday's included 35 nip bottles...
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