Show us where you paddled today thread:

Post your pics here of your latest paddles.

Turner Creek on the northern part of the Chesapeake Bay. One of the 4 spots in Maryland where the North American lotus lives:

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Disregard the crappy cell phone quality until I can get my boat camera. These are from last night on Long Island Sound. It was right at low tide, relatively calm seas, cool breeze, and few boats. Just perfect!

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Catchy thread title :rolleyes:

Looks gorgeous - I so rarely get to paddle in rocks, I love playing in rock gardens.


This was Curtis creek, when I decided to go paddling after dropping someone off at the airport... it ended up a way more industrial paddle than I wanted, and I didn't enjoy it all that much:

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Shipwrecks are always cool though:
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Further up the creek, there were more pristine areas, but the water still stunk and I could still hear highways:
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Originally Posted by Zen

Catchy thread title :rolleyes:

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pbbblttt. Make your own thread if you want catchy.

There.

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Originally Posted by Zen

There.

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I didn't want a thread title that didn't make it obvious that there was going to be a massive amount of pics - because if you have slow internet or have metered usage, going into a thread with a lot of pics sucks.

Kayaking: See what you've been missing (Or 'Sea' if you're feeling kooky).

I coulda just called it a show us where Catriona paddles thread.

Quick spin this evening on the Potomac. Pics in this thread so far all taken with a pentax optio w60.

A local checking out my yak:
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The paddle that fixed the hand numbness issues I was having:
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Just pretty:
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And sunset:

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I can't wait to see your pictures in October, after the leaves change colors.

What a peaceful way to end the day. Is that part of the Potomac upstream, closer to the Frederick area?

By the way, I like the thread title.

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I can't wait to see your pictures in October, after the leaves change colors.

What a peaceful way to end the day. Is that part of the Potomac upstream, closer to the Frederick area?

By the way, I like the thread title.

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I'm glad someone likes it!

The Potomac around Frederick has about 1 foot of water lately - I'm avoiding it. So I went up around Williamsport so I could have 2-3 feet of water!

I still need to go down and paddle on the Potomac around DC one day - everytime I've gone, it's been with people who were training - so I was too busy paddling to keep up and didn't have time to actually take pics. If you go upstream, it gets into some gorgeous rocky cliffs.

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Well thanks for asking :rolleyes:

Beautiful pictures - thank you for posting them!

Boss let me out early today, and I had people stopping by at 5:30, but I figured if I loaded the boat quickly, I could get a short paddle in. I'm glad I did. When I pulled into the launch, there was a group of elderly women loading their kayaks back up:cool: They'd done quite a paddle, at least 10 miles in windy and choppy seas. They get together every week. I think that's awesome. I slipped into the river and headed towards the Sound. I wanted to explore the coastline more, but as soon as I got past the breaker, the waves really kicked up. So I turned around and went back to the river and went around the marsh a bit. There, it was smooth as glass and I was able to relax. Very glad I got a little time in.

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Elderly?
Like 50 years old? :eek:
The horror!

I think you mean "older"
I usually only use elderly in conjunction with frail.

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you kids get off my lawn