Thanks for the kind words. That photo is one of my favorites and it is a color image. Magic light that morning.
Sunday afternoon on a local pond. Used to be a gravel mine in the local esker. Now a mile long pond with a launch site.
Thanks for the link to your website. Writing up trip reports is a lot of work and I appreciate the time that you have put into your’s. Lots of stuff to read on your site. Again, thanks for the link!
Very nice!
NotthePainter, I keep revisiting this thread and have to say, This was an absolutely brilliant idea for a thread. Thank you!
So many wonderful photos… and an absolutely great reminder of all the stunningly beautiful places that paddling has taken all of us to. If our canoes and kayaks are the “keys to the kingdom”, and I think that’s a fine way to think of it, what a kingdom we have all had the great good fortune to have traveled through!
This is an old quote, but one I haven’t seen on the board for many years. After again looking over these photos it strikes me as perhaps worth revisiting - not everyone is familiar with it, though I think maybe we all should be if we aren’t already…
“The movement of a canoe is like a reed in the wind. Silence is part of it, and the sounds of lapping water, bird songs, and wind in the trees. It is part of the medium through which it floats, the sky, the water, the shores…There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten. It is an antidote to insecurity, the open door to waterways of ages past and a way of life with profound and abiding satisfactions. When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.” -Sigurd Olson, The Singing Wilderness, 1956
Thanks again for the reminder.
You’re welcome and thanks for the quote, I hadn’t seen it before.
On the Pokemoke River, just north of Snow Hill Maryland
Dang Chuck, You and Paris sure do have your adventures in magnificent settings.
Rainy day of social distancing here…
Green River Utah Near Hell Roaring Canyon
Upper Iowa River near Bluffton
Jump River WI, put in at base of Big Falls
Interesting geology! What is the water temperature?
Pretty warm, looks like around 78 Fahrenheit (25.5 Celsius?) average for the whole river, though springs and feeder creeks can drop that down a bit. Some of our more spring-fed Central Texas rivers stay real cool in the summer.
I don’t think I’ve ever paddled in water that warm. Especially moving water. Sounds wonderful.