I am a Japanese female who came to the U.S. for the research opportunity as a scientist.
In my free time, I go hiking, backpacking, XC skiing. I love to be in the deep wilderness. I write my adventures from all over the world and Introduce the beauty of nature, from a viewpoint of Japanese.
日本出身の女性研究者かつハイカー。
休日はハイキング、バックパッキング、クロスカントリスキーなどで多忙。
日本人の視点から見た世界中の自然の美しさを、読者が旅をしているような感覚で読んで頂ければと思い、このブログを作成。
2019-07-02
Kayaking in Whitehall State Park
<Japanese version is after English 日本語は英語の後にあります>
There are many places to kayak in New England.
This time we went out for kayaking on the reservoir in Whitehall State Park, which is located in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
Hopkinton is a city about 30 miles west of Boston. I had heard about this town before moving to Boston. Actually only two cities I knew in Massachusetts were Boston and Hopkinton. Why Hopkinton? Because it is a starting point of Boston Marathon. My friend used to tell me about this town while our Friday's morning runs. It took 40 minutes to drive to Hopkinton from Boston. I was thinking, "Wow. Boston marathoners run fast! Elite runners can run the distance of 40-minute drive in less than three hours!"
On this day the weather forecast was rain with thunderstorm. So our original plan was not going outside. However, it was not raining in the morning. Why not kayaking then!
Whitehall State Park
We went to the Whitehall State Park and started kayaking. Surprisingly some people were fishing out there. Probably two or three fishing boats were there.
The lake was interesting. As you can see in the left picture many leaves were floating. Also it is hard to see from the picture, but there are very dense plants inside the lake. It looked like there was another forest in the underwater world. The dense plants in the water should be moose's favorite food. I wish they were in Mass.
These leaves on the water have two kinds of flowers. Some yellow, some white.
Flowers on the water is really nice. Especially seeing them from kayak on the water.
On the contrary of the weather forecast, blue sky emerged (right picture). It was nice to see unexpected blue sky. However soon after we heard the thunder sound in the distance. We kayaked out along the shore, but immediately we kayaked back straight to the dock. It was much shorter if go straight back. Luckily we deflate and got in the car, the first rain dropping came.
On the way back home, we stopped a coffee shop in Hopkinton. The table was a chess table and I played the chess for the first time. Next time, I WILL beat Mr.N.
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