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Now, a paddling report from Majenica Creek in Huntington County, Indiana:
There's no boat ramp; it's just a low place by the creek. There are are two launch sites here; parking is easier on the creek side of the road (shown below) while launching and landing are easier on the reservoir side of the road.
This place is part of the Salamonie Reservoir, just off an idle zone within the reservoir. The creek is navigable by self-propelled boat but fallen trees will prevent you from getting very far. The creek extends for a couple of miles, but you'll need a chain saw to get there. I had forgotten to bring my chain saw this day.
To the right (west) of the boat launch is the reservoir. You'll go under the low county road bridge and then under the Indiana Route 9 bridge to get there. After the bridge, you have some 2200 acreas of water to explore, but this is a sports lake so let's be careful out there if you're paddling.
All along your way, you'll see a Great Blue Heron or two. There are precisely 1.7 gabazillion Great Blue Herons within 10 miles of this place.
There are Cormorants in the area, too. Cormorants are duck-like birds that perch in trees. From what I understand, they're a bit of a nuisance. They eat all the fish the fishermen want to catch and they eat all the fish that other birds want to catch. After that, they poop fish wherever they might be. Let's hope they're not above you at the time.
They speak in low gutteral grunts so when 30 or 40 of them get together, it gets fairly noisy.
Majenica Creek was the destination for the day but the reservoir turned out to be a better paddle. I highly recommend the site for the peace & quiet, the reservoir itself, the wilderness, but not so much for the creek. Later that day, I went back to the county road bridge by the launch sites for a sunset over one of the Route 9 bridges. It's my first attempt at HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging, and this one was assembled by hand.
Autumn should be particularly nice here.
Pictures from this outing were taken within the red rectangle on the map below.
A complete (and detailed) map of the reservoir can be downloaded from the DNR site for Salamonie.
