Egg Harbor River Kayak Trip

Wick

Explorer
Mar 6, 2016
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Forked River
Looked at the weather for today and realized it was going to be the warmest day of the week. Did not have another driver to go with me and my 2 kids for a trip on the Mullica or Batsto. So I decided to try Palace Outfitters and do the 2-3 hour kayak trip. The flow and level were perfect. The only low spot was right in front of Weymouth Furnace. The river bed has a lot sand and gravel and not the vegetation along the bottom that the Wading has. One noticeable difference was the amount of trees trunks, branches and blow downs in the water. There were not any large sandy beaches like the Wading has. The bank had a lot of tall red flowers here and there. There was 1 purple flower that was very cool. I did not have a camera so I was not able to take any pics of the plants. At the location were the kayaks came out there was blue/green slag all in the water like you find in the road at Martha Furnace.
 

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RJG

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Nov 19, 2023
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Sea Isle City, NJ
I see lots of cranes in the marsh where I live and in the freshwater lakes, ponds and streams I fish, but in all the years I have hiked in NJ I have never seen one in a pine barrens stream.
 

bobpbx

Piney
Staff member
Oct 25, 2002
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Pines; Bamber area
Looked at the weather for today and realized it was going to be the warmest day of the week. Did not have another driver to go with me and my 2 kids for a trip on the Mullica or Batsto. So I decided to try Palace Outfitters and do the 2-3 hour kayak trip. The flow and level were perfect. The only low spot was right in front of Weymouth Furnace. The river bed has a lot sand and gravel and not the vegetation along the bottom that the Wading has. One noticeable difference was the amount of trees trunks, branches and blow downs in the water. There were not any large sandy beaches like the Wading has. The bank had a lot of tall red flowers here and there. There was 1 purple flower that was very cool. I did not have a camera so I was not able to take any pics of the plants. At the location were the kayaks came out there was blue/green slag all in the water like you find in the road at Martha Furnace.
The red flowers were likely Lobelia cardinalis and the purple either pickerel weed or purple loosestrife.


 
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