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[dutchlennart]

Sitting a bit low. Due to the lack of solo seat in this great tandem. Short test drive at the open kano festival in Ossenzijl

 

[Sedges]

Part of canoe tripping are interesting places and sights on the drive to the water.

I suspect not many here have paddled the Cacapon River in West Virginia . . .

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. . . especially from Largent, WV, where the only business is the Stoney Creek Country Store . . .

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. . . and where, one day a year, you can learn about and eat pawpaws in Paw Paw.

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We have a place in NEGA that we harvest pawpaws by canoe! Paddling up a long abandon ditch that drained a river bottomland for agriculture on the Tugaloo River we come under a bunch of pawpaw trees arching over the water. You can reach out with your paddle and shake a tree a bit. If there are ripe pawpaws they fall off into the water. Unripe fruit seem to stay on the tree. As they float, we paddle around and pick them up. Landing in the water, there are no bruises on the fruit. We make pawpaw ice cream and pawpaw pound cake. We process and freeze them in ice cube trays for winter treats.

 

[lowangle al]

It's been beautiful out there lately.

 

[paulh]

Lovely water and (no) wind conditions, Paul. Is that a Swift Keewaydin 15 in Kevlar Fusion?

Yes it is. I love it. Light weight, quick enough to get places with little effort and tracks pretty well.