Inflatable Kayak Blog

One thing about Michigan, there certainly isn’t any shortage of places to put the kayak in for a paddle. One of the places that we always get to paddle is at our family cottage on Portage Lake in the Upper Peninsula. We usually have several days at the “camp”, but this trip we only had one day and it was a fantastic day for paddling. The weather was nice, in the 70’s, and the sun was shining. There were big, chunky clouds in the sky that were reflecting on the clear, calm water. We did our usual paddle along the shoreline not too far out checking out the homes along the way.

As we were on our way back, we noticed some ducks swimming along the shore. Of course I had to get as close as we could to get some pictures, so we paddled after them with me clicking away when we would get close enough and they would stay still for a bit. At one of the places close to shore we saw this large fish swim between our kayak and the ducks. Very cool to see, and with the water being the clearest we have seen in a while it was another interesting wildlife sighting for our trip. We also saw a single duck that was swimming near shore that I got a shot of, but still need to get out some bird book and see if I can figure out what kind of duck it is.

We made it back to shore after a relaxing paddle and had lunch before heading off for another kayak adventure a little later that afternoon.