{"id":1678,"date":"2024-05-19T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2024-05-19T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:55:37","slug":"kayaking-kickoff-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/kayaking-kickoff-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking kickoff 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that ever since I got back from my epic road trip<\/A> I’ve been in catch-up mode. So, I’m not really surprised that it took this long to get my kayaking season started. <\/p>\n

I actually got out last weekend on a sunny, if slightly cool, bright puffy-cloud day. The lake level was about 40cm above normal, which I always like because that lets me get into more little feeder streams and backwaters. This included one that I never could get into before (that’s not the actual route, just a little place along the way through the woods):
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\nwhich led to a really beautiful little pond.
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\nShroonchyaa!<\/A>
\nI followed that up with a little dawn outing on Monday:
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\nThis morning was a very different day, again cool, but low overcast and breezy out of the northeast, enough to create some chop on the lake near the dam and Osprey<\/A> nest. Prepare to land! Gear down!
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\nThe dreary-looking conditions seemed to have a lot of the wildlife laying low, but of course, the Geese<\/A> are (almost) always here:
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\nAnd ducks:
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\nAnd, finally, the obligatory Great Blue Heron<\/A> picture:
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It seems that ever since I got back from my epic road trip I’ve been in catch-up mode. So, I’m not really surprised that it took this long to get my kayaking season started. I actually got out last weekend on a sunny, if slightly cool, bright puffy-cloud day. The lake level was about 40cm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kayak","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}