Kayaking the Marion River

Today we paddled 15 miles from the campground on Raquette Lake around Long Point and up the Marion River and back again. The Marion River is actually part of the Raquette River, which doesn't take on that name until it leaves Raquette Lake.

This is the size of the river near the upstream end.
We saw this neat church on Long Point. It is reachable only by boat.

And we saw this strange shrub I had never seen before. It is called the buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis in the Rubiaceae).

We saw the usual great blue herons and think we saw an immature or female eagle as well. We also saw mallards and a merganser.