Last month, we ventured north to a small un-organized community in central Maine called Grand Falls. This Grand Falls should not be confused with the actual Grand Falls waterway on the Kennebec river. This Grand Falls is mostly hills and woods. Lots of woods. There are two ponds of size (Madagascal and Saponac) and a waterway which friends of ours have a camp.

We visited last year and posted pictures. This year I went on a canoe trip on a sunny Sunday morning and borrowed a small Samsung camera. These are some of my better images.

Maine has had lots of rain this year. I think it has rained every day over the last month, for example. It rains even when my radar app shows no precipitation. The radar sometimes shows only a small spot with rain in the entire state. That place typically is the Augusta area. The forests are green. The trails are clogged with foliage.

We cruised up and back on the Madagascal for about two miles. Along this route, we encountered two shore-to-shore beaver dams. These dams are modest and barely poke through the surface. Crossing them in the canoe is only a minor challenge.

The last image here is one of the live beaver wood piles we encountered; there are also many abandoned ones. We saw some kingfisher birds several times, a number of ducks, and at least one beaver along the way.