Riles Creek drains into Tuckertown Reservoir. Today's paddle was organized by Crystal and most of these Photos were taken with her zoom camera. Above is Crossvine. We saw a lot of it today. This bunch was right at eye level. Normally, it is in the tops of trees and hard to spot. Often you see the flowers on the ground but never can see the flowers in the tree.
We slid the boats into the water below the Stokes Ferry Rd bridge. We started out in a wide river which gradually narrowed. The channel for motor boats was well away from us so we were not bothered by their wakes. The creek meandered and eventually we were stopped by a log snag. At that point we were quite close to Rt 49 and could clearly hear the traffic but could not see any. There was a long stone wall at our turn around spot. On the return we could hear a Great Blue Heron chick making a racquet from a nest atop a Loblolly.
Sensitive Fern
We saw several Cormorants. One was startled by us and made its escape by swimming below us.
Lots of Atamasco lilies today. They look pretty but all parts are poisonous.
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