On Saturday, we welcomed Isabelle (Stacey’s daughter) into our kayak gang with a nice easy paddle on Beaverdam Lake in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Beaverdam Lake is a part of larger Falls Lake, where Paul and I like to take weekend camping trips. However, the Beaverdam section was dammed off into its own lake and prohibits motor boat use.
It was a beautiful day, when the sun was out to keep us warm. But it was chillier than expected when cloud cover filled the sky. We spent a few hours lazily padding along, covering about 3.5 miles total. Not a strenuous day, but enough to tire Isabelle out and earn her some ice cream on the way home.
Paddle trip map
One of the cool things about this location was the launch area; it was an old road that had been flooded when the dam was constructed to fill the lake.
Launch site – flooded road which can be accessed from both sides
About an hour into our paddle, we stopped for lunch.
Lunch spot
Ollie has his own pfd
Ollie didn’t want to leave dry land after lunch
I consider myself very lucky to live in the Raleigh area since there are so many places to go kayaking. Not every adventure has to be a fully-blow camping trip that takes preparation and planning. Just getting out of the house on a nice afternoon is usually enough to beat away the cubicle blues.
Here’s a gallery of other photos I took during the day:
Adventuring With Hillary 