Kyaking on Assabet River no.1

We went kayaking on Assabet River.

This is our second kayaking of the season, finally after frozen river got melted.

We kayaked on Assabet river near the town of Maynard, . Maynard is west of Concord, Massachusetts. Speaking of Concord for this blog readers, there is my favorite coffee shop, Haute Coffee. Of course today before hitting the water, we had pour over coffee there. 

After enjoying the coffee, we went to the boat launching area. Nobody was there, so it was easy to inflate our kayak. Then, we started kayaking. Again I recorded my 1-mile paddling. During this 1 mile, only I paddled. I like to record the things.

The app I used, Runkeeper, does not have an option of kayaking as an activity. So I had to use rowing. Rowing uses much less energy to move 1 mile, so I hope I burned more than 91 kcal. Also the reason why there are so many stops on the activity map is that we stopped for seeing turtles and swans.

Be on the water is nice

This area is nice. It was calmer than last weekend's kayaking. The nice thing about this area is that it is along the wildlife refuge. So there are many birds in the area. It was nice to hear birds singing along the river. Not only birds, but also we saw many turtles, swans, and ducks. 

Turtle

I really liked the turtles in particular. Turtles were soaking up the sun on the logs floating on the water. Usually kayakers pass by, they get plummeting into water, even if kayakers are not very close.

One point, one of plummeted turtles came up again to the log and my camera caught it. The turtle was soooooooooo cute!

On one log, more than twenty turtles are in line. We passed the log and all of them plummeted into the water. The order they jump into the water was smaller ones to the bigger one. One biggest turtle didn't go into the water. He looked like, "Who cares". It was funny.

Swan

It was also nice to see swans. They are bigger as we got close to.  Total we saw five of them. One of them one point flew a little. Think carefully, I believe I had never seen a swan flying. It was nice to see it. 

There was a couple of ducks. We kayaked a little close to them, and they seemed annoyed and they flew 5 meters away. 

We probably kayaked about 4 miles (2 mile in and 2 mile out). It was nice. 

I feel now I am more into kayaking. 

とある土曜日にアサベット川へカヤックへ出かけた。今シーズン2回目のカヤック。今回はメイナード市の近くのアサベット川でカヤック。メイナード市はマサチューセッツ中央部の市でコンコード市の西側に位置する。

コンコードといえば。。。。このブログのハードコア読者は思い当たることがあるのでは？そう、オートコーヒーがあるところ。私のお気に入りのコーヒー店だ。もちろん、カヤックする前に寄りポアオーバーコーヒーを楽しんだ。

そしてボートエリアからカヤック開始。途中でランキーパー（アップ）を使って１マイル（１、６キロ）だけGPSで記録。この1マイルは一人でカヤックを漕いだ。１枚目の写真が記録。途中でやたら止まっているのは亀を見たり、白鳥を見たりしていたから。

このエリアはワイルドライフ保護地区なので、鳥がいっぱい。カヤックを漕いでいると鳥のさえずりをずっと聞くことができる。静かな川で聞こえるのは鳥の音と、カヤックで水を 掻く音だけ。素敵な時間だ。２枚目の写真がこのエリアの様子。

そして亀が可愛い。水に浮かぶ倒木には亀が必ずいて日光浴をしている。カヤッカーが来ると水の中に入ってしまうのが常だが、一匹すぐに木に這い上がって来る亀がいてかわいかった！（写真３枚目）。通常何匹か一緒に一つの倒木にいるのが常だが、今日は二十匹以上の亀が一列に一つの倒木に並んで日光浴しているのを見た。すごい。小学校の１クラス全員が一列に並んでるみたい。カヤックが近くにつれ亀たちは水に飛び込んだ。小さい亀から最初に飛び込む。警戒心が強いのだろう。そして一番大きい亀は飛び込みすらしなかった。ふてぶてしそうな顔で”誰が木にするか”と言っているかのようだった（笑

さらには白鳥とマガモなども見ることができ、楽しいカヤックだった。

カヤックはアメリカに来てからはじめ、ニューイングランドに引っ越してからマイカヤックを持った。現在、カヤックにハマり始めているかもしれない。