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What was your favorite moment on the Tidal Delaware River this summer? What was the coolest thing you saw? The biggest fish you caught? The most scenic trip you took?
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If you'd like to become a "blog author" and post your own stories, news items or photos, just email info@tidaltrail.org.
posted by PECPA at
1:40 PM
4 Comments:
The coolest thing i saw, was 6 colorful Kayak's in the Penn's Landing Marina basin. This was a welcoming site of the future on the Delaware! Thank you to PEC and Penn's Landing for making this dream a reality!
I paddled the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge last week and I saw a great blue heron catch an enormous fish...the hunt went on for over an hour and as the sunset with the marsh mallow in the distance and the great white egrets starting to nestle down in the shrubs, it was a perfect nature experience just a stone's throw away from the airport and downtown Philadelphia. What a treasure we have in this refuge that was established by an act of Congress in 1972 to protect the last 200 acres of freshwater tidal marsh in Pennsylvania.
At Otter Creek in Bristol PA this summer, we not only watched a group of volunteers tackle the invasive plants that are taking over native vegetation in this beautiful woodland and wetland habitat, but we watched a great blue heron hunt for fish at low tide until dusk. What a treasure this marsh provides to local residents.
As part of my volunteer monitoring duties with Delaware Riverkeeper Network, I visited a Port Richmond, Philadelphia park in September to collect a water sample and ran into several amazing fisherman who shared their life stories of the river and their love for fishing on the river over the last 40 years. Petty's Island was in the backdrop and they talked of the efforts to finally preserve this island. They talked about how the fish species and diversity has improved from the old days and they talked of the bald eagles they see regularly in this area. But many are still concerned with mercury and PCB contamination and they worry about fisher-people who eat the fish from the river from this park. While there, a 6 inch and a foot long striped bass were caught by two fisherman who grew up in the area and remember the days the pier was used to unload coal to the railroad. What a nice day on the River in Philadelphia.
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