Today, I went for another paddle on Constance Creek in my Wood Duck kayak but started from a Constance Bay beach site (Baillie Avenue). The Baillie beach site gives good access to launch a small boat (canoe or kayak) on the Ottawa River. It's only a 10-minute paddle along the shore to Constance Creek's mouth/entrance. The creek is quite wide at the entrance, especially at this time of the year with all the flooding.
As I paddled up-the-creek, I met a few other kayakers and canoeists enjoying a paddle, even with the cloudy, cold afternoon (12C). From the entrance, Constance Creek stays quite wide until you get to the Eagle Creek golf club. Upstream from the golf club, the creek gets very narrow in some areas with beaver dams and lots of vegetation (i.e. mostly cattails).
Today, I had an easy paddle in calm conditions and went as far as the Eagle Creek golf club (2.5km). On the way, I did one stop on the south side of the creek - where I saw some solid ground and some debris. It turned out that this location was on the edge of the Copperdale golf club, and some of the debris/garbage on the edge of the creek was one or more old golf carts. The Copperdale golf club is about 100m from the creek's edge, while the Eagle Creek club is right on the edge of the creek. The proximity of these two golf clubs probably impacts the ecology and diversity of the Constance Creek and wetlands.
Additional to a few Canada Geese and ducks, today, the paddle's other wildlife was a porcupine perched in a tree on the edge of the creek. Porcupines are always very photogenic -- they don't move very fast!
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| Porcupine |
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| Porcupine up a tree |
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| Canada Geese |
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