Upper Brown's River, Sayville, NY
It was high tide and we were able to take a boat ride up to the north end of the river. We ususally can't do that because the river is so shallow there. The best way to see this end of the river is with canoe or kyack, which many people do.
We haven't done that in the last few years. We have to buy another canoe.
I remember the first time we paddled up the river. It was January, but not very cold, and we had just moved into this house. Since it was winter, we did not have the big boat in the water yet, and we had just moved.
We bought the canoe, used, from a rental place on the Carmen's River, so the boat was pretty beat up. We didn't care, since we were determined to see our new neighborhood.
We felt like explorers finding a lost land.
As we paddled up the river the vegetation changed.
No more fragmities and more brush and weeds.
All of a sudden three very large Great Blue Heron flew out of the brush. It must have been their nesting area, parents and off-spring. I was in awe.
They looked so large, flying with their legs and feet trailing behind them. I felt like I had come across so pre-historic monsters. They looked like pterodactyl to me, from the dinosaur age.
We were very excited and happy to live in such a natural place.
Now we see them all the time. They fish in the pond and river near our home.
What a sight!
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