Night Paddle in Fundy Bayou

On Wednesday August 5th we had cancelled an evening paddle due to thunderstorms. Instead we invited friends to our house for a social hour. We kept peering towards the south. Finally someone said for us to give it a try. So we piled in our cars and off we went.


We arrived at the put-in at twilight. Off in the distance we could see lightning but nothing close. A full moon was rising. We launched our boats in the dark into a bayou I had never paddled. I did bring the gps.


The wind dropped and everyone turned on their flashlights ... mostly headlamps. Ritch had a million or so candlepower spot light. The bayou is a saltwater marsh with reeds and a few trees along the bank. The channels branch out into a maze. We paddled two miles into the dark. Our lights kept scanning the banks looking for gator eyes. All we saw were silver reflections of water spider eyes.


The paddle turned out to be a blast. We had planned to tell ghost stories around a campfire but the hour was lated.