Kayaking Tupper Lake

I am addicted - to sunshine and quiet waters. We were supposed to stay home today and do some chores and get ready to drive to NJ tomorrow. I was outside hanging clothes early this morning and couldn't get enough of the sunshine and stillness. The weather is wonderful and is supposed to stay this way for days - beautiful blue skies and low 70's. So I dragged W on yet another paddle - not that he objected. We needed something short and close to home, so we put into Tupper Lake at the Route 30 parking area on Rock Island Bay and paddled to the outlet of Bridge Brook Pond. We stopped along the way at Black Point for lunch. We looked for the campsite that shows on the paddlers' map, but couldn't find it so we just lunched on the rocks. We walked along the trail to the pond, which is just to the right of the outlet, and discovered that if we had lightweight boats we could have portaged them easily. The trail is narrow, but fairly flat with few obstacles under foot. There are a couple of wet sections so we were glad we waited until things dried out a bit. After viewing the pond, we headed back home. The total paddling distance was just about 5 1/2 miles.