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It was a spectacular spring day on Bartlett Pond.
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Time to get out the kayak and get a little upper body exercise.
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A well deserved break after all that paddling. Now, I'm hoping to get a glimpse of this year's swan family. They don't let me get close when I am in the kayak.
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Here's mom swan and her seven cygnets swimming vigorously away from me even though I am a long ways off with a zoom lens. Seven is the largest brood I recall seeing in sixteen springs on this pond.
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To create this panoramic image, I purposefully panned the camera unevenly.
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A new large house (at left) is under construction, replacing an old small cottage.
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And over at nearby White Horse Beach, another new house on concrete stilts takes shape.
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Over the winter, Bartlett Brook received some maintenance from the town to keep it smoothly flowing to the ocean. This section of the outflow channel is now arrow straight - that is until the waves and tides have their way.
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