Nothing specific, I think I owned 9 boats at the time. If you fit in the AT, it’s a playful and lightweight boat!
Very windy downriver paddle today on Michigan’s Huron River. High point was an eagle that kept fleeing from me for two miles. I felt bad for him because on his third landing he got mobbed by crows, but I did get closer than I’ve ever gotten before for a good shot before he finally headed back upriver. Does he look a bit peeved?
It took you out of his territory limits, then probably returned to the nest.
This is why you do rivers and bayous and such. You do open water, you don’t see this stuff.
Getting ready to storm?
Loved the Bois Brule.
When living in the area, would typically paddle it yearly, County B on down to L Sup.
Yup. Love the sound of rain on the tent.
I knew it, I could hear the rain drops. Nothing like it and watching the lightening dance, out in the wilderness. It makes you know you are there.
That is true, but I sometimes see up to 3 American Eagles on the way to open water. Once I cross the 10.65 miles of mostly open water, I typically see one flying over Pooles Island (about 6 miles out), and as many as 5 foraging the beaches on the Eastern side of the Chesapeake Bay. That segment of open water is not as challenging as the ocean, but it is as much as I care to encounter.
That’s why I bought bigger boats, better paddles, and learned how to paddle more efficiently - it expands my range.
I love that kind of light on the water during late day partial storm breaks. Reminds me of a similar shot I got on an inlet of the Sanguenay Fjord in Quebec back in 2017.
Here are a couple from one of the Wisc. R. Pnet trips:
If you look closely in the first picture you’ll see a dot near the waterline on the left side, just off the point on the left bank. That’s our old Pnet friend Boyscout. I was catching up to him in the second shot.
Not spectacular photos, I’ll grant you, but they capture a bit of the day’s atmosphere.
Paddling in fog is the best.
North Shore of Lake Superior about 24 years ago. We had come down the Dog in White Water boats & 3 of us stopped for the night on the way back to Nat Superior:
A few more from the trip. All were originally 35mm film from a Minolta waterproof camera:
Omg those images are amazing 
That looks truly gnarly! I don’t believe I’ve ever even heard of the Dog River. Is it the one that passes just west of Thunder Bay?