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I’ve been a canoeist and kayaker since my Boy Scout days.  Our pack leader usually had some sort of outing planned every month: hiking, camping, and numerous canoe trips down Michigan rivers: the Manistee, Au Sable and several others.  Today I enjoy the lakes of Massachusetts and an occasional junket to the Rhode Island and Maine coasts as well as Boston Harbor.

But my favorite place has to be Lake Whitehall.  For starters it is close, only 15 minutes away, making it possible to sneak an hour’s paddle in after work.  Even though close to 495 and the Mass Pike it is quiet with only a bit of distant truck noise.

Mid June carries a special benefit: mountain laurel fringe the lake in many places and yesterday we hit it at just about the peak.  Paddling slowly around the edges lets you get almost under them and enjoy them up close (OK, watch out for hanging spider webs).  Sorry, no scans – I won’t take flowers from public lands – so you’ll have to take my word for it that the small, intricate geometrical shapes mass into lovely white clusters.  Whitehall is truly a little treasure and right now it has a special glimmer of white.

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