No leaves on the trees. I’m guess that means that the water is cold?
In canton that’s the first week of May on the Grasse River… it’s not the warmest water of the year!
My favorite thread! Not nearly as pretty as most, but here’s a couple from an overnighter on the Little River in Central TX last year - tributary of the Brazos. One of them is actually a very ugly picture (took me 45 minutes to negotiate that log jam) but hey, makes all the others look better, right!
Fun day playing hooky from work with some old friends who were in town - they were taking a day to recuperate after a week of Disney Workd chaos. We had been wanting to paddle Weeki Wachee together for years and we got a perfect day! That’s me in the red Gemini.
Awhile, check that water.
@mickp, never saw a log jam like that before. More like a garbage jam. Thought things like that only happened in 3rd world countries. What gives?
I see that on the undammed creeks/ small rivers that have head waters in metro areas. It’s not uncommon to have floating garbage get caught in sweepers. I have done some clean up runs down a coupe rivers here in SC.
Ievburg…you need to paddle more around metro areas. The logs…high rain drops trees and they collect. Trash comes off of roads. Drivers are real litter spreaders.
We often can collect enough in one trip to fill a canoe from a small group of cattails near the house.
We’ve seen trash on logs like that in different places. The one that comes to mind was at a cow pasture on a creek next to a COE camp ground near Montgomery, Al. I got pictures somewhere.
We have a river clean up on the one that runs through town. Dump truck load.
Our roadways aren’t pristine but that photo makes me appreciate Michigan’s bottle return law more than ever. I usually pick up one or two pieces of garbage on each trip but there is very little trash even in Ypsi and Ann Arbor or downriver from Detroit. Well, maybe there is blows to the Canadian side.
Plenty of downed trees here although it is finally lightening up a bit - after 15 years most of Michigan’s tens of millions of emerald ash borer victims are done falling.