canoeing (Beaver River) 2:10:00 [3] 12.0 km (10:50 / km)
Goose and I met Bash and Bent at the Epping bridge and canoed up river for an hour or so then back. Really nice paddle. Saw the adult bald eagle and an adolescent. It seemed enormous. We followed them up the river most of the way. Also saw trumpeter/tundra swans, an egret, a pair of Sandhill cranes and lots of geese and ducks but no beaver and oddly no muskrats. Then we had to test the buttertarts from the new Blackbird Bakery location. Necessary to test more than one actually, to be sure. Same gooey goodness as ever:)