Canoeing on the Charles

Yesterday Matt and I spent the lovely weather canoeing in the Charles River.

We took off from Norumbega Park, which is conveniently only a five minute drive from our house. We canoed down the river, down by Brandeis and Purgatory Cove…

Matt looking at a map

Me canoeing…man, my arms got tired quickly!

Quack quack quack!

Matt canoeing

Then we decided to go through the culvert to get to Purgatory Cove…but I had a rather difficult time directing us back out to the river…

Yikes! I almost bumped my head a few times!

Cemetery on the river

This goose looked like he had somewhere to be!

More geese

We had a very nice time. We canoed for about an hour and a half. It was more interesting than canoeing in a lake or a pond because the scenery changes a lot more with a river. The water is a little murky in some parts near the banks because the water is shallow and there are a lot of lily pads, but it’s actually pretty clean. No litter or anything.

It will be even prettier in a few weeks once the trees and flowers are completely in bloom! We’ll go back again soon, for sure.

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