inaugural voyage
Jul. 13th, 2004 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanpaku_backupWith a return visit of the mother-in-law and a trip to Lowe's (one of about 10,000) to get bungee cords and a ratchet tie-thing, we were set. The canoe is extremely heavy but a couple of pieces of foam provide all the framing you need to put it on the top of the car. Fortunately the drive was only a few blocks away.
We put in at Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet (a big canoe club back in the day, "the day" being around 1915 or so) and paddled up to the Warwick Ave. bridge, about 3/4 a mile away. It was indescribably perfect -- calm, lush, relaxing. And we were rewarded by a sighting up close of this big guy (it's not my photo, though).
We can do this whenever the convergence of child care and good weather comes about.
Pretty nifty.
We put in at Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet (a big canoe club back in the day, "the day" being around 1915 or so) and paddled up to the Warwick Ave. bridge, about 3/4 a mile away. It was indescribably perfect -- calm, lush, relaxing. And we were rewarded by a sighting up close of this big guy (it's not my photo, though).
We can do this whenever the convergence of child care and good weather comes about.
Pretty nifty.
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Date: 2004-07-13 04:24 pm (UTC)Herons
Date: 2004-07-13 06:28 pm (UTC)So, if you lose control of the fish for a second, they stab it and gulp it down. I must admit, that I couldn't resist feeding them. It was delightfully gruesome. I was participating in the great chain of life. Yes, here I am in the desert, catching non-native fish out of a concrete bath tub and feeding them to birds. The circle goes on, unbroken.
Re: Herons
Date: 2004-07-13 06:42 pm (UTC)Sort of sounds like the Salton Sea, which you must have discovered by now. An entire enormous lake caused by a mistake. I'm hot to see it someday.
Re: Herons
Date: 2004-07-13 08:52 pm (UTC)