Magnolia River Weeks Bay
Sunday, October 17, 2004 brint.adams@us.army.mil
After the great weather, blooming flowers and variety of birds on the Whiskey Ditch paddle yesterday, I thought it would be nice to try for two days in a row. So, I put a post on the club website yesterday afternoon to see if there was any interest in paddling Magnolia River this afternoon. Well, it turned out to be another beautiful day, but either no one checked the website or had other things to do, as no one else showed up for the paddle.
So, I put in on my own and decided to turn the paddle into a tough workout. The temperature was around 82 degrees under a clear sky, a good breeze coming out of the southwest with a low and rising tide. There were a few boats out either fishing or just putting around and many others out enjoying the afternoon working on their piers and boat houses.
There were very few flowers blooming, but quite a few brown pelicans, cormorants and a couple of osprey.
I pushed the trip out at a pretty good pace, but not at full race pace, making it to the old Lulu's by the mouth of Fish River in 59:29. After a short water break, I decided to pick up the pace a little on the way back to go along with the following current and made it back in a negative split with an overall time of 1:54:09 over the 11.5 mile course.
After the great weather, blooming flowers and variety of birds on the Whiskey Ditch paddle yesterday, I thought it would be nice to try for two days in a row. So, I put a post on the club website yesterday afternoon to see if there was any interest in paddling Magnolia River this afternoon. Well, it turned out to be another beautiful day, but either no one checked the website or had other things to do, as no one else showed up for the paddle.
So, I put in on my own and decided to turn the paddle into a tough workout. The temperature was around 82 degrees under a clear sky, a good breeze coming out of the southwest with a low and rising tide. There were a few boats out either fishing or just putting around and many others out enjoying the afternoon working on their piers and boat houses.
There were very few flowers blooming, but quite a few brown pelicans, cormorants and a couple of osprey.
I pushed the trip out at a pretty good pace, but not at full race pace, making it to the old Lulu's by the mouth of Fish River in 59:29. After a short water break, I decided to pick up the pace a little on the way back to go along with the following current and made it back in a negative split with an overall time of 1:54:09 over the 11.5 mile course.
posted by brint @ 9:16 PM
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