The Delmarva Peninsula is lucky. We straddle the northern most range of the bald cypress tree. This means we have beautiful cypress swamps to paddle, and in our case a cypress swamp just twenty minutes away in Delaware’s Trap Pond State Park. We began our kayaking season this […]
Launching from the Taylor’s Landing boat ramp, near Girdletree, MD, offers a number of paddling options including a new, to us, paddle to Tizzard Island on May 27th, 2019, Memorial Day. Our favorite paddles from Taylor’s Landing head two miles southeast to circumnavigate Mills Island, or hug the […]
On May 7th we drove to Laurel, Delaware for a one way paddle downstream on Broad Creek to Phillips Landing Recreation Area. Ths is a beautiful part of Delmarva and a favorite kayaking destination which always furnishes surprises. On April 15th, 2019 an EF-2 tornado touched down between […]
April 2019 featured a beautiful spring on DELMARVA featuring weather much nicer than in April 2018. In 2018 we first kayaked for the year on May 1st. This year’s warmth allowed us to get on the water for a short spin around the cypress swamp of Trap Pond […]
October 8th and 9th, 2018, found us spending two perfect autumn days kayaking near St. Michaels, Maryland. The town of St. Michaels is one of our very favorite destinations, and we highly recommend the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and the St. Michaels Winery. On this trip, we put […]
Having fun with kayak surfing. On the third day of our kayaking adventure with Road Scholar we traveled south to Lake Willoughby in Vermont. A quick check of our passports and we crossed the border into the U.S. This day on Lake Willoughby the planned paddle was one […]
Brome Lake Marsh, Knowlton, Louise Penny and the Benedictine Monastery The second day of our September 2018 Road Scholar trip of kayaking adventures, Kayak Day Trips: Quebec and Vermont, took us deep into the Eastern Townships of Quebec Province to Brome Lake. The launch site at Tiffany Park […]
In mid-September, we flew to Burlington, Vermont and then drove across the Canadian border into the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Our destination; the Outdoor Lodge at Glen Sutton, Quebec, hosts for a Road Scholar program “Kayak Day Trips: Quebec and Vermont”. Joining us in Quebec, 15 kayakers of […]
We’ve been asked to share this information and are happy to do so. The Maryland Freedom Swim supports Shore Rivers Association and the Dorchester County YMCA. Kayak volunteers needed for the Maryland Freedom Swim on May 11th, 2019. This swim is 1.7 miles across the Choptank River at […]
On Labor Day, 2018 we chose a new kayaking site near Vienna, Maryland. Putting in at the town boat ramp along the Nanticoke River we found the weather sunny and the waters perfectly calm producing beautiful mirrored reflections as we paddled north, less than a mile, to Chicone […]
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