17 Miles on the Kennebec

I hope you like river pictures - here are a bunch! Susie and I went on a beautiful river run in our kayaks. We started in Waterville and went down to Augusta. It was part of a Kennebec River festival. Very nice - they had a bus to take people back so we only needed one car. (It really was 17 miles!)

We're off.
We were amazingly lucky with the weather. It rained every day except this one. It wasn't this smooth all the way, but isn't this beautiful?
Catching up with a few more kayaks around the half-way point in Sydney.
Here we're coming up to an island - lunchtime!
These things in the water are from when they used to have log drives. These helped channel the logs somehow. Maybe they had people standing there poking them along? Sounds dangerous.
Here's Augusta in the distance. It was funny to come into a city. Most of the trip was really woodsy with just a few signs of civilization - some wires and railroad tracks. We saw herons, ospreys, an eagle and a bunch of big fish jumping.
Starting to see the landing place on the left. We landed at a fort. Someone shot off a canon while we were still in the water - scary noise!
Susie made it - still going strong!
Waiting for the bus.
This person was paddling on a surfboard. She lasted about 2 minutes, then fell in.
What a fun day. I hope we can do some other stretches of the river later in the summer.