PARKER RIVER PADDLE

PARKER RIVER PADDLE

Water Closet for September 29, 2017      The Parker River flows between the Merrimack and Ipswich rivers as it meanders fifteen miles from Groveland to Plum Island Sound. [pullquote]”Humans have paddled these waters for 10,000 years. They’ll...
PISCATAQUA RIVER – GREAT BAY CRUISE

PISCATAQUA RIVER – GREAT BAY CRUISE

Water Closet for September 22, 2017      Historic Portsmouth, a small city with a great seaport, is less than an hour north of Middleton via an asphalt river that flows from the now suffering Keyes up into Maine. [pullquote]”Beneath the water...
The Hummingbird Escadrille

The Hummingbird Escadrille

Water Closet for September 15, 2017 Naturalist Fred Gralenski in far off Pembroke, Maine, has been sending the Middleton Stream Team his bimonthly, Quoddy Nature Notes, for over a decade.  Below is a column from long ago, repeated recently, about hummingbirds....
LAYERS OFF THE ATLANTIC

LAYERS OFF THE ATLANTIC

Water Closet for September 8, 2017      On a fine August Sunday afternoon, 11 paddlers in four kayaks and three canoes put in on a half-tide ebb at the end of Island Road in Essex. [pullquote]”Soft shelled clams, razor clams and an occasional...
EARLY MORNING ON THE IPSWICH RIVER

EARLY MORNING ON THE IPSWICH RIVER

Water Closet for August 11, 2017 Seven paddlers including the Old Closeteer arose in the dark and wondered for a moment why they were doing so.  It was four-o’clock; sunrise, their target, was at five-thirty. They planned to greet the sun’s early light on the...