Sunday, July 13, 2008

Would you believe...

Today we went out on the Nashua River in Hollis, NH. It's a nice stretch of river and there's a couple of mild rapids right at the put-in point, so it's fun. We paddled upstream for a couple of miles, and I collected what I found. There wasn't that much trash, so that was encouraging.
After we came back downstream, my girlfriend was sort of sitting there staring with wonderment at the shore. I came around the weeds and there was an exercice bicycle - like the modern kind standing up right at the shoreline. Very strange.
OK, so bottles, cans, styrofoam cups, etc. all have some level of plausible deniability that they ended up in the river accidentally. Not an exercise bike! I wonder if they have serial numbers that can be traced back to the owner?
I'll go drag that out of there one of these days and see.