There were canoe and kayak races all over the place this past weekend, and it's hard to believe there are enough paddlers for each of them to have had a decent turnout. But apparently there are. In addition to the Gator Bait Race that I attended down at Jackson, Mississippi, there was the Tour du Teche on southern Louisiana's Bayou Teche, an event that had to be cut short as Hurricane Nate approached; the Kayak Trader Challenge, hosted by the 1996 Olympics flatwater sprint venue on Lake Lanier at Gainesville, Georgia; and the Middle States Divisional Championships, hosted by the venerable Washington Canoe Club on the Potomac River at Washington, DC. And there were probably more that I simply don't know about... in the upper Midwest or out on the West Coast, perhaps.
The photo above, taken by Craig Impens of Toms River, New Jersey, shows a bustle of activity on the Washington Canoe Club dock along the beautiful Potomac. That's the Francis Scott Key Bridge over yonder.
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