2007
| In 2007, the club offered a series of canoe trips
down the Connecticut River in Massachusetts. The river was divided into
5 sections: Vermont Line to Barton's Cove, The Deerfield River Confluence
to Sunderland, Sunderland to Northampton, Northampton to Holyoke, and then
the longest and hardest, Holyoke to Enfield Connecticut. A group of
intrepid paddlers joined Tom and Nancy Condon for a single excursion or the
whole series. |
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Wildlife along the river has been improving. Bald
Eagles were seen on a number of trips. Other wildlife included red-teiled
hawks, belted kingfishers, sandpipers, a pair of nesting mute swans, and a
pigeon floating in the river upstream of the Holyoke Dam. We even stopped
in Northampton, searched, and found the endangered Puritan
Tiger Bettle. |
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