North Kingstown Town Beach - July 20, 2021

Launching at the town beach

It was forecast to be the first day of sunny weather, so I took a ride over to Wickford to check out the site of this year's RICKA Picnic - the Cold Spring Community Center at the North Kingstown Town Beach.

Once a year, the entire club gets together for the RICKA Family Picnic. It’s a great time for everyone to get together for some fun. It’s also an important opportunity to recognize the dedicated volunteers that make our club possible.

Poplar Point 

An important consideration in planning the picnic has always been to find a fun location where everyone can participate in a paddle. This year flatwater paddlers will launch at Wilson Park and paddle the protected waters of Wickford Harbor. Sea kayakers will launch at the beach and paddle in Narragansett Bay.

The water was dead flat so I launched at the beach and padded around Poplar Point into Wickford Harbor. A layer of “smokey fog” from massive forest fires in the west gave the sky a gray-brown tinge that resulting in some interesting pictures.

Smoky Fog on Narragansett Bay

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