Paddling in the Lakes District of the Charles River (Part I)
by I finally convinced The Boy to get a paddle in his hands. We rented a double kayak from Charles River Canoe & Kayak on Commonwealth …
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The Falls at Cordingly Dam, Newton
The Charles River is running very strong with all of the recent rain. I cam across this video of Cordingly Dam. I paddled in this …
Commuting Along the Charles River
Brian Mardirosian used his red kayak to commute using the Charles River, traveling from West Roxbury to Beacon Hill. Mardirosian started out on the Charles …
Postcards of the Charles River from the Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library has posted a collection of Newton post cards using Flickr. Several of the pictures show how the Charles River used to …
Massachusetts Oyster Project
From the Boston Globe’s Green Blog: Oysters help clean the Charles River. Oysters eat silt, in addition to the phytoplankton that drift in the currents. …
Paddling on the Bellingham Meadows
The Bellingham Meadows are part of the Natural Valley Storage Project. The Army Corps of Engineers uses stategic areas of wetlands along the Charles River …
Paddling in Elm Bank and the Bays Region of the Charles River
It was another beautifully warm and sunny October day, so I went back to the Charles River. I put in just downstream from the South …
Paddling in Hemlock Gorge
Unlike the rather pristine Stop River Confluence area of the Charles River, the Hemlock Gorge section is more urban, passing houses, factories and highways. I …
Paddling in the Stop River Confluence of the Charles River
It has been a long time since I have been in the kayak. Given my current free time, I thought it would it would be …