The View From the Canoe

I set out from the North Cove at Pettipaug (Essex)... yeah, I think the original name has a bunch more pizzazz than the current name.  The w...

I first went to the refuge launch, but found that my ideas about the rising tide were a bit too optimistic with twenty feet of exposed mud b...

Lord Cove - Some places that I paddle are like old friends. I listen to them, and perhaps they listen to me.  I take away a bit of the garba...

Last night, I had a canoe dream.  They don't come along often, so I feel blessed when they do.   I had a friend in the canoe and we padd...

I put in by the 4-span steel bridge and head upriver.  It is mostly sunny with a wind coming down the river.  The wind is steady with an occ...

I put in sometime after noon on the Menunketusuck.  The tide is low and still dropping, the sky is mostly cloudy with the clouds moving abou...

We set out in the early afternoon down Pond Brook, out into the Housatonic and around the point into the Shephaug. The weather was fine with...