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Kayak fisherman
The weekend after Labor Day and what a difference on the D&R Canal. I rode for 9 miles before I passed anyone. The various parking lots were wide open and only one small group of tubers was on the river, compared to hundreds on other weekends. I enjoyed the solace, happy to not be calling out, "on your left" quite so often. I imagine the 'crowds' will be down on the GAP/C&O too...
This may have been my last really long ride now before my trip. And somewhat curiously, my butt was hurting at mile 30. What's with that?! There should be no sore butt anymore!
I chatted with this kayaker... he was fishing while letting the current move him down the canal...looked very relaxing. He goes after small mouth bass, but often catches sunnies. Today wasn't a good day for fishing, but he was seeing a lot of snapping turtles and herons.
The most interesting part of my ride today was when I was resting at the Delaware River Bridge in Lambertville. Closer to the bridge, a young man set up a tripod aimed at the bridge and while he was messing around setting it up, a neon-vested bridgekeeper left his shack to yell down at the guy.
This may have been my last really long ride now before my trip. And somewhat curiously, my butt was hurting at mile 30. What's with that?! There should be no sore butt anymore!
I chatted with this kayaker... he was fishing while letting the current move him down the canal...looked very relaxing. He goes after small mouth bass, but often catches sunnies. Today wasn't a good day for fishing, but he was seeing a lot of snapping turtles and herons.
The most interesting part of my ride today was when I was resting at the Delaware River Bridge in Lambertville. Closer to the bridge, a young man set up a tripod aimed at the bridge and while he was messing around setting it up, a neon-vested bridgekeeper left his shack to yell down at the guy.
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Bridge at Lambertville
I couldn't quite hear everything because of the noise cars make going over metal grating. But the gist of it seemed to be that people are prohibited from photographing the bridge from below! I thought maybe that was an anti-terrorism thing, but as the conversation progressed, I heard snatches that indicated the bridge image was copyrighted and one needed permission to photograph it! (But not before I'd already taken my photo!) When I got home I googled to try and learn more, but found nothing. So who knows...that photographer did pack up and leave though. For the record, I don't think anybody should be able to copyright a public structure and certainly not prevent a photograph of it! As a taxpayer, I own part of the bridge and I should be able to have a photo of it. That bridgekeeper would do little bridge-keeping it seems if he had to chase everyone with a camera. Just saying.