Much as I love snow, sometimes it’s good to get away someplace warm. It’s especially good when that place includes a beach, palm trees, a coral reef, good and plentiful food and drink, and the company of those most dear. 

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I've been doing a lot more bicycling and kayaking of late, since injuries have forced me to lay off running... completely but I hope temporarily. 

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Inspired by naturalist, wetlands biologist and artist David Carroll, I went for a walk this evening in the woody bog behind my house.

 

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I am the delighted owner of a second-hand white water kayak! 

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Here's another guest post, since I haven't been up to anything much too exciting of late, from my dear friend Margo, who wrote of a recent kayak outing. We all have those favorite places we visit over and again, savoring subtle differences in weather and season and relaxing in the familiarity of scene. This is one of hers.  

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A recent motorcycle outing (see last post) took me out Route 123 and through Alstead, where the scars from last year's flooding remain raw.

 

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Having been forced by injury to sit out the Nipmuck Marathon this weekend, I finally got around to paddling the upper reaches of Salmon Brook. 

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I started my work day this morning by taking my canoe out for a quick spin on Salmon Brook. 

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I didn't write earlier about the Souhegan River because I don't know it so well, but I found a site that describes it, with canoeing in mind. Here 'tis.

You can get realtime river flow information on most of the state's bigger rivers online, courtesy of the USGS.

 

 

The Nashua is an easy-going river, popular with bass fishermen as well as paddlers.

 

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The Nissitissit River runs southeast from Lake Potanipo in Brookline, and flows into the Nashua River.

 

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Looking at a map or walking around town, one might guess that the City of Nashua sprouted on the banks of the Nashua River. 

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