*Disclaimer: Shamelessly off-subject post follows. The water the Starkweather Creek (known as the Wyseora Creek in the pre white-settlement days) fluctuates greatly by season. During high water I have paddled from the Dixon St greenway at Milwaukee St up past Aberg Avenue and through the golf course and eventually had to stop at the airport where the culvert was too small to enter. There are many interesting little channels up there which were undoubtedly created in order to drain that area. Going downstream from the Greenway, there is a fork in the creek where the smaller and more-easterly channel joins the larger channel. In high water, it is possible to travel a good way up through the gravel pit and eventually almost to highway 30.
During most of the year, you can head strait down the creek and wind up going through Olbrich Gardens and paddling to the creeks effluence at Lake Monona. However last spring during high water, the water was too high to get under the bridge at the Isthmus path (bicycle connection). As Robbie said, from Lake Monona you can ride the water all the way the Gulf of Mexico and from there, well who knows. Around 10-years ago a couple from Madison put in at Lake Monona in October and wound up in New Orleans by New Year's Eve and the Florida Keys a few months later. I've seen wildlife ranging from beavers, to turtles, to blue and green herons in parts of the creek. Happy paddling, Steve On 5/5/09, Barbara Whitney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi bikies, > > Any suggestions for gear for someone who wants to start kayaking (beginner) > on easy lakes and rivers and would prefer not to use a car? I thought I > could maybe get an inflatable kayak? and a cart for my bike? If you put > your kayak in starkweather creek behind Olbrich gardens, how far can you go > up, anyone know? I know nothing about where to kayak around here so > forgive my ignorance and feel free to enlighten me. > > thanks, > -barb > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >
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