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New paddling discovery –Mattaponi Creek,MD

I got out in the kayak last weekend for the first time in a few weeks and followed in my paddle strokes from our first and only outing in PEACE OF THE PUZZLE a couple weeks before that. The spot? Mattaponi Creek,off the Patuxent River in Maryland. The canoe trip served to discover this [...]

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A great morning of paddling at Piscataway Creek,MD

I was able to get out on the water this AM,which was,needless to say,a very good thing. I set my kayak in Piscataway Creek,MD,a Potomac tributary several miles downriver from DC. I’ve been there a few times and am always impressed with it. I dropped the boat in the [...]

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Second outing in PEACE OF THE PUZZLE a success

We had a nice second outing in PEACE OF THE PUZZLE on Sunday. We went down to Piscataway Creek in Maryland. Its a nice,protected spot,which,given a brisk Northwesterly,was a good thing. As it was,we pretty much had to come back into the teeth of it,but at least the water [...]

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Latest on the warm,brown Chesapeake

I read with interest Angus Phillips’piece in Sunday’s Washington Post about the masses of sediment that deluge the Chesapeake during rain storm like we’ve had here recently. He writes:

Is the Chesapeake turning into a dead mud hole? Every year it seems to get worse,and it’s not just my imagination. “It’s becoming way [...]

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