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RFGuy wrote:

algale wrote:It's canoeing season again and I'm working on some new skills, as seen in this video.

https://youtu.be/lxszJwNlLCQ

Nicely done!

Hope there wasn't any "B" roll of you falling in the creek...

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This was the view from A Slow Boat to Nowhere today. As I was sneaking up on this Great Blue Heron, it was sneaking up on sunfish.

https://youtu.be/Qb-YavDwY7c

algale wrote:This was the view from A Slow Boat to Nowhere today. As I was sneaking up on this Great Blue Heron, it was sneaking up on sunfish.

https://youtu.be/Qb-YavDwY7c

Absolutely beautiful.

It reminds me of a time when I was Moose hunting in Quebec. I was by my self and had portaged the canoe over a beaver dam. I got up in the pond and saw a beaver. I was between him and his lodge. I just sat there in the canoe. He would swim up close (6 or 8 feet)and dive and come up on the same side of the canoe farther out. This went on for about 30 minutes. Finally he came up dove down and came up on the other side of the canoe and swam to his lodge. Priceless!

The thing about your wood canoe and the cedar strip and canvas canoe I was in is that they are QUIET. Even if you bump the canoe with the paddle it is wood on wood, a natural sound and very subdued. Aluminum or fiberglass canoes ring like a bell in the quiet of the forest.

I’ve snuck up on Great Blue’s several times — I leave the motorboat anchored and swim to to the shore. I can breaststroke very silently, but they’ve never let me get that close.

jsburger wrote:
Absolutely beautiful.

It reminds me of a time when I was Moose hunting in Quebec. I was by my self and had portaged the canoe over a beaver dam. I got up in the pond and saw a beaver. I was between him and his lodge. I just sat there in the canoe. He would swim up close (6 or 8 feet)and dive and come up on the same side of the canoe farther out. This went on for about 30 minutes. Finally he came up dove down and came up on the other side of the canoe and swam to his lodge. Priceless!

The thing about your wood canoe and the cedar strip and canvas canoe I was in is that they are QUIET. Even if you bump the canoe with the paddle it is wood on wood, a natural sound and very subdued. Aluminum or fiberglass canoes ring like a bell in the quiet of the forest.

What a great experience that must have been to see!

BuckeyeDennis wrote:I’ve snuck up on Great Blue’s several times — I leave the motorboat anchored and swim to to the shore. I can breaststroke very silently, but they’ve never let me get that close.

There must have been a half dozen Great Blues at this little lake today and I snuck up on three of them. But this was the closest. I thought it was getting ready to fly off when it went for the fish!

We had 2 Sand Hill Cranes behind the house last month. First time I have ever seen them on the property. Those are really big guys.

This is my back yard and my wildlife photo ( have shared before but saw another today). About a 6 footer.

wrmnfzy wrote:This is my back yard and my wildlife photo ( have shared before but saw another today). About a 6 footer.

Maybe it saw the remax sign and wanted to look things over.

Night paddle on the Pocomoke River on Maryland's eastern shore.
And a couple of videos of the same river much further upstream, passing through a bald cypress swamp.

https://youtu.be/L3TMkVdi0jY

https://youtu.be/j-nXGB5xEE0

algale wrote:Night paddle on the Pocomoke River on Maryland's eastern shore.

IMG_E1C31B2169F1-1.jpeg

And a couple of videos of the same river much further upstream, passing through a bald cypress swamp.

https://youtu.be/L3TMkVdi0jY

https://youtu.be/j-nXGB5xEE0

That is fabulous that you are enjoying your creation so much. Well done.

To this Westerner of blue skies, open country, and fast running water, that spooks the hell out of me LOL. Ever have any snakes drop out of the trees ....