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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday a friend and I spent the day in a canoe on the River.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">He fished and I paddled. Both of us were very successful.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The river is low - a 20 year low I would say from past time spent on the river.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The low water has exposed a lot of things. It is not only low but very clear<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for the Lahave. The amount of wood on the bottom is unbelievable. As examples Trees<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">fallen into the river, slabs from old saw mills, logs sunk from log drives. I even</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">saw some logs that were cut with an axe. That wasn't yesterday. The wood does<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">things to the current, forcing the water in a new direction, digging out channels,<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and letting the sand build up in the quite water behind the trees.  The water gets <br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">pushed to one side, it digs out the opposite side, trees fall in and the process starts over.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Amazing how the river has changed since I first knew it!<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In one area we could see tracks in the sand. close observation revealed they were made by<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">fresh water Mussels. Mussels are not speeders!  Perhaps moving to deeper water for the winter?<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">One area had a bed of Yellow Ochre. I never saw before and only visible with low water.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Could make paint if I wanted!<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Another place we saw a chain sticking out of the bank. It had a 12 cm ring on the end<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and six or eight links going back into the sand. That was there  a long time and would<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">have been a valuable item in the old days. Someone missed it you can be sure.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Swamp Milkweed is plentiful on the banks but it must have very special habitat requirements<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">because it is dominant in places and absent in others. The seed pods are quite visible now<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and remind me of candles. Monarch Butterflies would not go hungry there.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well anyone who read to here, I tip my cap to you!<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Have a nice summer<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paul<br/></span>
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