Few people have the opportunity to explore the Androscoggin River from a canoe or a kayak.
On a recent trip with YPPLA and the Great Falls Paddling Society, we got to do just that.
- A couple canoes out of the old Continental Mill sluice ways on the Lewiston side of the Androscoggin River.
- An open shell sits covered in cobwebs along the wall of a channel on the Androscoggin River in Lewiston.
- A channel leading from the Androscoggin River on the Lewiston side goes under a foot bridge near Lincoln Street.
- An old flood stage gague on the Androscoggin River near Simard/Payne Park in Lewiston.
- Graffiti under the Bernard Lowen Peace Bridge in Lewiston as seen from a kayak in the Androscoggin River.
- The old Continental Mill sluice ways looks dark and foreboding along the Lewiston side of the Androscoggin River. Who would never image a hidden world waits inside.
- An old discarded metal object sits along the Lewiston side of the Androscoggin River.
- The Androscoggin River flows quickly over the falls between the cities of Lewiston and Auburn.
- Inside the old Continental Mill sluice ways on the Lewiston side of the Androscoggin River.
- A beaver feeds on vegetation along the Lewiston side of the Androscoggin River at sunset recently.
- The underneath the foot bridge between Bonney Park in Auburn and Simard/Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston as seen from a kayak in the Androscoggin River.
- A drainage ditch feeds into the Androscoggin River from the Lewiston side.
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