Nashua's Oxbow Strikes Again

Found refuge from Sunday morning's wind gusts in the Nashua River's valley at Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge in Harvard, MA.

This particular Sunday morning had plenty of gunfire from the Fort Devens range.  When the shooters were given instructions over the public address system the instructor's voice carried on the wind sounding like he was in my immediate vicinity.

After paddling up to the large blowdown by the stone chapel I headed back downriver...

Paddling downriver more voices were heard on the river's east side where a group of mountain bikers pedaled along a riverside trail...

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As is usually the case, this 2.5 mile section of the Nashua River had plenty of trash which had been carried downstream by Saturday's rainfall...

Rounded up trash...

...included another 125 "nip" bottles.  Standing tall amidst all that plastic was this glass bottle of Dr. McGillicuddys...

As I was loading my boat a late-running Norfolk Southern Z265 container train rolled past Still River at speed...

...en route to Chicago.