Mousam (pt.1)

"Come on Mom & Dad, I've got the canoe all packed. Life jackets, fishing poles, tackle boxes...here, here are your paddles...lets go!" This adventure dog was tail waggin happy to be headed out on our first canoe adventure of 2009. Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE to hike, but, in a canoe a dog can be "Queen of the Nile." Basking in the sun, watching all the wild life around us. I don't even need to paddle...life IS good! We stopped at an island so I could pee, Mom and Dad started to paddle away just to get me on video...very funny, now get back here and pick me up! (see 1st video) Being spring and all, love is in the air. We saw bumble bees everywhere, tons of them, doing what they do in the spring buzzzz, buzzzzz. We watched a pair of geese for an hour. We saw another pair of ducks and a pair of loons. And one poor lonely cormorant in a tree lookin' for love! The trees were full of song birds singing their love to each other (Listen to 2ond video) We had put in at the boatlaunch on Lower Mousam Lake and paddled to the brick underpass to Mousam lake. We,well, Mom & Dad, paddled the whole lenth of Mousam then through another crete arch into Goose Pond. Long trip back into a bit of a headwind, But the folks seemed to keep a good pace back and we were back to the van before the sunset. Spring is really here, birds and bees, and our Old Town gliding silently across the mirrored lake, ahhhh!