Well we are officially at the halfway mark for walking the D&L. At least as far as trailheads go. I haven no idea how many miles we've walked.
Today's walk was in Morrisville, Pennsylvania heading north to the Yardley trailhead and ending at the lower end of Washington's Crossing park. Crossing the park is another four miles. Then it's another 5 to New Hope. That will be another long walk. The D&L website still had the warnings up about storm damage. We saw very little. Yardley to Washington Crossing was muddier than the first section. And there was evidence of tree's that came down.
I was sure this wasn't going to happen today. We drove thru a hell of a downpour on the turnpike to get there. But it cleared up. It was humid, and mostly cloudy but it never rained. At the end we were still drenched ... with sweat.
We began at Morrisville and quickly discovered closed bathrooms. It was 4.2 miles to Yardley. This section of the trail is between a hillside of wealthy people houses, the canal, marshland and the river. At times the highway was on our left and at others on our right.
Looking at rich people houses was fun, and the set ups they had for canoeing and fishing in the canal. But since the storm the canal had a layer of something on it. It reminded me of anti-freeze more than oil. Quite gross. Regardless, wildlife was abundant.
We were walking and walking and saw only two of those slate mile markers in the ground. And then nothing, We passed four locks an two aqueducts and had no idea where we were. This section of the trail has no mile markers. It also has no signs marking what lock you are at. We had no clues how far we walked or where we were at. It was confusing.
Pam's daughter -- who is visiting her boyfriends family in Yardley -- was picking us up and texted around noon. Where are you? What time should I come. We couldn't tell her anything because we didn't know. And ha no signal to open up a phone map. We stopped at a log so Pam could fix her shoe. Thankfully she had picked up a paper map and while she attended to her shoe, I we could determine that we were almost at Washington Crossing.
There was no trailhead marker in Yardley or Washington Crossing. At least not on the trail. When we arrived we called and picked us up. First stop. The visitor center bathroom. We've been waiting four hours.
Wildlife: 4 geese, monarch & swallowtail butterflies, 3 blue heron, 6 little wood (?) ducks, mallard couples, heard a lot of bull frogs croaking in the marshland, 3 large turtles, a very thin doe.
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