A woman who writes of (among other things) swimming across rivers will be the keynote speaker at the Nashua River Watershed Association’s annual meeting next month. 
Akiko Busch lives along the Hudson River, herself, and she will speak about the themes she covered in her last book, “Nine Ways to Cross a River,” a collection of [...]

I wasn’t the least bit worried about bouncing down the upper Kennebec River in a raft, myself. I’d done it before, with a bunch of friends many years back. It was a wild trip, and heaps of fun.
An organized, commercial group outing led by a professional guide would be tame in comparison, I thought. Still, as [...]

I don’t usually do this sort of post, but I thought I’d share my fleeting fascination with a sport that’s completely unfamiliar to me: stand up paddle surfing.
I stumbled onto Web sites devoted to the sport while checking out a longboarding (skateboarding, that is) site, which had an article and ad for a product being sold [...]

Yards and gardens aren’t the only places that require weeding. Local ponds, marshes and rivers also are at risk of becoming overrun by weeds, and the aquatic kind are every bit as tough to eradicate as the terrestrial types. Pulling weeds by boat has got to be more fun than picking them out of the ground, [...]

I couldn’t bring myself to the gym again last evening despite the rain, so I brought my kayak to the brook, instead.
 
Here’s what I found, more or less in chronological order:
 
One large splash, something between bullfrog and beaver.
Vapor off the warm water, despite the humidity of the cool evening air.
 
Two muskrat, maybe three. 
 
One blue [...]