
Thursday, August 20: I had the morning to paddle before going to meet my sister and her spouse at the Long Trail. The last time I was here, the parking lot was full, and I wasn’t able to get on the water – this time it was a weekday, and I was at the lake before 8AM. Plenty of parking!
There were several places where people had built fire pits – and then there were these very hard looking seats!

I didn’t get great photos of the loons, but there were adults and chicks – here’s a half grown one.



Back to the launch, where Vermont Adaptive Sports was getting ready to help a paraplegic young woman get on the water in a kayak, and this very appropriate bumper sticker was parked next to me –
