My little Vela, a sea kayak, is on the car and I will finally get on water - outside - soon. The first evening paddle of the local ADK group is tonight, and the water on the Mohawk River has cooperated by dropping a good bit. It is still brown with mud and the water level is a little high, but I didn't see things like the entire trees that are still coming down the Hudson River.
It will be interesting to see how many people turn out for this. The day is grey with rain promised later and this morning's forecast originally had thunderstorms. A lot of people would have already decided to skip this paddle before leaving for work today. So we may be a small crowd tonight. I brought extra rain jackets in case.
I stopped to check out the river on the way home from an oil change earlier and noticed a number of pair of geese along the shore without chicks. I wonder if the floods decimated their ranks. I did see one family with four and another with three chicks. The parents did their job though, and made sure I didn't get too close.
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