We had our traditional Memorial Day paddle and picnic today with a great group of friends. The paddle was on Rainbow Lake, which is good to do early in the season before all the motor boats arrive. We put in off Clark Wardner Road at the west end of the lake. There is a small parking lot on the left not too far up the road from Jones Pond Road. And there is a trail right across from it that goes to the lake. But there is a shorter trail back down the road closer to Jones Pond Road and that is where we put in. That narrow section of the lake is full of floating bogs with neat vegetation. There was lots of bog rosemary blooming (Andromeda glaucophylla in the Ericaceae), but I had a hard time getting a decent photo since the wind kept blowing my boat around.
We paddled up the flow then stopped for lunch at the campsite just as we were heading back into the lake. I did my usual wandering around in the woods and found lots of lady slipper orchids, including one where a bee was about to enter the flower.
This is the view from the lunch spot.
Then on to the take-out on Kushaqua Mud Pond Road where we had spotted the cars. We paddled a total of seven miles.
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