Kayaking Deer River Flow

Today we kayaked Deer River Flow and up to Horseshoe Pond with a group from ADK. If you head north on Route 30, it is the last significant body of water before you hit the blue line. We put in on Cold Brook Road right off Route 30 and paddled a total of about 9.5 miles. There were beautiful, huge, white water lilies at the entry point. We paddled up to the dam and there were new posted signs all around so we could not land there. But the view back from the dam was very picturesque. I'll have to always take the camera from now on. We lunched at a state forest preserve campsite at the entrance to the creek up to Horseshoe Pond.We saw what was probably a muskrat swimming in the water, several great blue herons, and a huge bald eagle that was sitting in a large white pine next to the water.