Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road

Tag: Canoe Camping

  • Shore Patrol

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    A follow-up to Melissa’s post about our recent canoe camping trip to highlight one of the bird neighbors we encountered on that beautiful lake. Read more…

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    Mike Dunn

  • My Temple is the Swamp

    …I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place…I seemed to have reached a new world, so wild a place…far away from human society. ~Henry David Thoreau My last trips to the magical swamps of the Roanoke River happened Read more…

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    Mike Dunn

  • Swampin’ Again

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    Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. ~Winnie the Pooh Well, if you didn’t know it before, you will know it now…swamps are Melissa’s (and my) favorite places to camp in North Carolina. And one swamp in particular, the “Amazon of North Carolina”, the massive swamps along the Roanoke Read more…

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    Mike Dunn

  • Cashie Calling

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    My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver curve of river folds the traveller into its embrace. ~ Rory MacLean This is the second post on our recent canoe/camping trip in eastern North Carolina (see previous post here). We departed the Cypress Cathedral camping platform Read more…

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    Mike Dunn

  • Swamping Again

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    The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten. ~Sigurd F. Olson The Swamp Queen (aka Melissa) did it again…planned a canoe/camping adventure to our favorite swamp destination, the Roanoke River. So, last week, we headed east to spend a planned 6 days paddling over 50 miles Read more…

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    Mike Dunn

  • Buffalo National River

    On the river, time does not exist – only the sound of the rushing water, the cries of the wood thrush and crow and the sight of light dancing on the water. ~Ginny Masullo Our second paddle adventure back in October was on a section of the Buffalo National River in Arkansas. The Buffalo River Read more…

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    Mike Dunn

  • Keeping Current – The Wild Things

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    Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world. ~Ted Turner My only regret from our canoe camping trip last month was that I did not bring my usual camera gear to record some of the wonderful wildlife we Read more…

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    Mike Dunn

  • Keeping Current – The River

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    The rivers flow not past, but through us… ~John Muir it has been a little over a month since our paddling adventure. I’m finally getting around to sharing some of the incredible memories from that trip. My knee has been causing some real problems these past few months so we agreed to try a paddling Read more…

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    Mike Dunn