Today’s Paddle

[gorgonzola]

Some serious logistics there.

We were working out a pedal/paddle on the Lehigh/D&L Sunday, gonna do it before the summers over. The big question is one or two vehicles for security reasons. In my mind it seems locking boats 'n bikes to a vehicle is safer than a tree or guardrail.

 

[Brownski]

Super helpful.

 

[Brownski]

Not today- a couple weeks or a month ago. Can you believe this pic didn’t make the Kanawauke blog post?

 

[D.B. Cooper]

Not today- a couple weeks or a month ago. Can you believe this pic didn’t make the Kanawauke blog post?

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Cool picture. It looks like the start of a James Bond movie.

 

[gorgonzola]

i have a creepy one if you zoom in from Sunday

 

[Brownski]

Yeah, that’s a little creepy

 

[jamesdeluxe]

Dolphins spotted in NYC’s Hudson River

“Oh, my God, there’s two of ’em!” Kayakers in the Hudson River couldn’t contain their excitement when a pod of dolphins swam alongside them — with the Manhattan skylin…

nypost.com

 

[Brownski]

That’s pretty wild. I was actually discussing the possibility last week of doing Liberty Island again with one or both of my kids. Maybe we’ll have to squeeze it in before Junior goes back to school.

 

[Brownski]

Lake Sebago again. I finally got some water snake pics.

Here it is zoomed in

And I’m not sure I’ve seen this particular turtle species before. I’m thinking it’s a map turtle

Overall good day. I stuck to the shoreline all the way around, including bays, to maximize distance- got a good workout.

Found this spot up a little stream near the put-in. I had no idea this was here- don’t know what the wall was built for.

There were several sailing canoes out even though there wasn’t much of a breeze blowing. Maybe that’s on purpose though cause they don’t look all that stable to me.

Traffic jam

 

[Brownski]

Also, this is just a plain old painted turtle and you probably can’t tell from this picture but this guy was an absolute unit for his kind. You see tons of these around that are 4 or 5 inches but this one was probably a good 8 or 9 inches tip to tail.

Also tough to make out in the pic but there’s a nice little rock face in there- great bouldering opportunity except that Harriman famously bans rock climbing other than in one isolated area over by Sloatsburg.

The remains of the abandoned beach