Show us where you paddled today thread:

[Zen]

http://www.rei.com/adventures/trips/weekend/edo.html

I like how they call them "timid" alligators.

[NoNo]

Awesome close-ups of the heron! I saw one in Canada but it wanted nothing to do with me.

[Zen]

That bendy backwards leg is so freaky. It's like she has an extra joint.

[Cataboo]

Great pics of the herons, Zen - if you paddle on the Potomac around dc, the herons are so used to humans they will let you get quite close without moving.

Herons always make the bird/dinosaur/reptile link look very obvious to me.

I finally wrote up a trip report - it'll have a lot of the same pics I posted here:
http://cpakayaker.com/forums/viewtop...3833d1348bcb8d

[tulip]

I was paddling in the Northern Neck over the weekend (no pics sorry) and a Great Blue Heron was on a low branch and swooped right over my head, croaking like they do. I about fell in the water. They are huge up close, and very pterodactyl-like.

[Zen]

Tulip, you finally got a kayak?

[Cataboo]

My kayak is officially a tandem. I no longer paddle alone.







She did need a better hair do after all that salt water, so that was arranged:

[Zen]

Herons always make the bird/dinosaur/reptile link look very obvious to me.

hump-backed dinosaurs yields clues to origin of birds