Kayaking the Upper Osgood River

We finally had some good weather today - sunny and mid-70's. So we did a 10 mile round-trip paddle up to and on the Upper Osgood River today. We put in on Church Pond, since the water was plenty high enough for us to get through the channel into Osgood Pond. And I wanted to photograph the Rose Pogonia orchids that I remembered seeing in Church Pond in past years.
This part of the Osgood is lined with swamp laurel and other bog plants and tamarak trees, in contrast to the alder-lined lower Osgood which I hope to paddle soon.In addition to paddling to the end of the river, that is to the dam that prevents further navigation from this end, we explored a small tributary and went in about half a mile before encountering a beaver dam. There were good-sized alders growing on it, so clearly it had been there for a while.