04/08/2006 Paddling Friends1 First time on water this year! Saturday, April 8 Nelligan Lake 45 minutes on the lake Sunshine, about 46º

04/08/2006 Paddling Friends2 Participants… Mike & Rita Shores Terre Radtke (she was also out this morning on Chute Pond; she bought her kayak last fall) Lonny Jackson went out on the North Branch of the Oconto River

04/08/2006 Paddling Friends3 We saw… Mallard ducks Many white ducks who flew parallel to surface of the water, just above the water A loon (the first loon we have ever seen on this lake)

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04/08/2006 Paddling Friends5 A bit of ice on south shore

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04/08/2006 Paddling Friends7 A little more ice

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04/08/2006 Paddling Friends9 Reflections…

04/08/2006 Paddling Friends10 First loon of season

04/08/2006 Paddling Friends11 Lonny Jackson wrote… I kayaked the North Branch of the Oconto River today from Sullivan Springs Road to the bridge on Old 32, just above Loon Rapids. Beautiful, but some downed trees and several 150-yard class 1 or 2 rapids made the trip risky or even unsuitable for open canoes.