A New Paddle

The water is still very high, so today we tried a paddle we hadn't done before.  We drove just a few miles west on Route 3 and stopped at the parking area next to Dead Creek.  We put in there and went upstream.  We thought we would be stopped by beaver dams, but the few we encountered could be "skooched" over.  The water was very fast and the turns very tight.  So after paddling upstream for 3 miles, we called it quits due to fatigue instead of beavers.  We are paddling again tomorrow and didn't want to completely exhaust ourselves.

It is very hard to see on this map, but Route 3 is on the upper right and we paddled up the winding stream almost to the lower left.  It goes on and on from there.  Maybe we will go farther next time, though there are few places one can get out of the boat and I'm sure it can only be done during high water.  At least now we can say we explored at least part of Dead Creek.