Kayaking @ Sudbury River

As I wrote in a previous entry, we got a new part for our broken kayak. Meaning we can go kayaking again. We chose this time Sudbury river, which is only 30 minute drive from Boston. 

First we went to the launching area we planned. We found more than 5 cars there and a group of 5 people was launching a boat. It looked like they might need more time. We didn't like the crowded launching area during this pandemic, so we went to another launching area. Another one was only 7 minute drive from there and there were only a couple of cars. We looked nearby and we found a place where we could launch around 100 meters away from the normal launching area. That way it was possible not to contact with any other strangers! Why not did that?!

Swan

First animal we saw was a swan. The entire 6 miles of kayaking there was only one swan. Maybe he needed solitude, or social distancing. Swans look like aristocrats. They can swim as if nothing is going on. They paddle hard under water, but no facial expression change, which is a real aristocrat.

Muskrat

Then next animal we saw was a muskrat. He was on the log floating on the river. It seemed that he was eating plants. Realizing a kayak coming, he swam to his home! So cute. I had never known about muskrats until I started kayaking, but now I see many and I like them. 

The next animal we saw was Canada geese. There were a lot of them. Cute. Then the next was turtles. They like to be on the log in a long line. Cuties. Sometimes small turtles are on  big ones. What funny about turtles is sometimes a big turtle is on a smaller turtle. Poor small ones!

Bird

Finally, we saw some birds, but heard a lot of birds. Here the area is Great Meadows Wildlife Refuge. Therefore many birds live there. It was nice to hear the birds. The left picture is one of the birds I could see. Can you see a bird?

Kayak with pump

As I wrote before here, we had air leaking problem. This time a good thing is that our new tube worked well. It was nice to paddle all the way without leaking air. Just in case we carried air pump on the kayak, as you can see on the right picture. 

While we were packing up our kayak to the car, we saw two kayaks went by the river. Hmmm? Two kayaks were tied. The second kayak was just pulled by the first one. Parents were paddling on the first one and the kids were on the second one and was pulled by the first one. Wow. Spoiled.