Canoeing with my oldest son

[maxwellandson]

My oldest Boy came home from college this week, yesterday was such a nice day we deciced to go for a canoe trip.We decide to put in at Weymouth Furnace on the Great Egg Harbor

Dylan standing by my truck as we are getting ready to un load

we took Wharton along too

this was a little stop about a half hour in.

viewing down stream

one of the forks we tried got very shallow, Wharton is watching the leaves that are flowing in the current

Slacker

Wharton finally stands still for 5 sec's

Wharton decided to start chasing some of those leave's

we hit another shallow spot and had to jump out and drag the canow for a bit.

Hey wait for me

looking back thats what we had to drag the canoe across

this one too

interesting looking tree of many down this river

one of the many swampy bank sides

same area , Wharton investigates

one of the many little feeder streams along the way

there where alot of downed trees early on. Dylan drags the canoe across one of the log encounters for the old man.

this tree was deceiving because there are other logs under it and it wasnt so easy to go under it. At first we thought 'piece of cake' it turned out ot be a piece of cake with a giant log in it.

Wharton

the river starts to widen her and gets deeper. the current wasnt so strong so i could actually take a couple pictures as we where moving

looking behind us

another interesting tree

and another feeder stream

not so much work now

Beavers snack stand

wharton is beat by now so he curls up for a nap

Dylan checks to see how deep the water is

Approaching destination Lake Lenape

 

[james ungehajer]

Nice pictures Chuck, felt like i was along for the ride, thanks for posting and sharing.

Jim

 

[Sue Gremlin]

It's about that time, isn't it!? I can't wait to get out there.

Nice pics! It looks like it was a great day.

 

[Teegate]

On the river with your son and dog. What better way to spend the day! I agree with Jim, I was there.

Guy

 

[Mts83]

Looks like a great day to be out on the Egg Harbor, nice shots.

 

[LARGO]

Dang!
Nice day. Good to know you spread your fatherly wealth amongst your chillun'.
Some wonderful photos but tell me, did you take a pic of Wharton cocking his leg to pee? Poor guy can't get no privacy.
I like for the low water scenes but with all three of you that canoe must have been lowww in the water. Even on a nice day that stream water is coooho,oold! kinda rich for my thin blood. I walked by my canoe this eve' after my first read of this and was jealous of you.
I'm glad you got out and thanks for the scenery! Keep it up.

g.

 

[glowordz]

Approaching destination Lake Lenape

An interesting range of photos and plenty of them, so we could enjoy the trip too!
One of our first dates was canoeing on Lake Lenape.

Glo

 

[maxwellandson]

Thank's everyone, We had A great time. I was suprised Dylan actually wanted to do this with me. He goes back to School by Pittsburgh on Sunday morning so it was alot of fun to do something just he and I. He says when he comes home for summer break he wants do do alot more.We saw an Eagle along the trip also, we were in alot of twist and turns and the current was a little to strong to put my paddle down and try to get a picture.


And the canoe was riding a little low, I got in and was moving some stuff around then Dylan jumped in and I was like whoa. But we made out all right.
Oh yeah George,Wharton wasn't lifting his leg it only appears that way, he doesnt lift his leg at all to take care of business.

 

[grendel]

Nice day Chuck, I can't wait for the warm weather to get out with my kids.
Keith

 

[maxwellandson]

Nice day Chuck, I can't wait for the warm weather to get out with my kids.
Keith

Thanks Keith,

Hey any idea when the next time you or you and Eric are coming up.

 

[Hewey]

Looks like good times! awesome photos.

 

[kayakmac]

Real nice pics. Note any wildlife other than birds? Water looks low for this time of year.

 

[maxwellandson]

Real nice pics. Note any wildlife other than birds? Water looks low for this time of year.

the only wildlife we actually saw was some squirells, plent of birds ,some hawks and we did see a bald Eagle.


The water was actually pretty high, the areas where it was low where some forks we took instead of the main river.