Kayak Trip on Osgood River II

Today we had a wonderful paddle up the Osgood River from Meacham Lake. This is the other end of the Osgood River from the one we paddled last week. The Osgood originates in Osgood Pond and ends at Meacham Lake with some unnavigable sections in-between. Our trip started on the arm of Meacham Lake pictured here.

We saw several great blue herons, including this one that landed in a tree near our route.

As you can tell from the map, the river twists and turns but the flow was strong enough it was not difficult to tell which way to head. We paddled to Baker Pond and then turned around, meaning a total round trip distance of about 10.5 miles. Someday we'll start out earlier and go farther, provided we don't run into too many beaver dams. On the portion we traveled we only came across one small dam that we were able to skooch (a technical kayaking term) over.

The vegetation is very different from that upstream. Here the river runs between steep eskers on either side that are topped with huge white pine trees. The river is lined with alders and other interesting vegetation - see the next post.