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Thanks, this is wonderful! I will share with friends and report back on the trip!

By near, I guess I mean a two hour drive. I have some friends coming in with a canoe (I'll be in my kayak), and the alternative is car camping. Thought this group might know of a place or two, the Mass DCR website is decidedly unhelpful on this one.

Thanks for all the responses. I think I overestimated the expense of a basic farmer john, so I'll save up my pennies in hopes of joining y'all for some trips before the end of June! Oddly, I already have a VHF. Just held off on buying the big ticket items (wetsuit/drysuit/nice paddle) until I was paddling enough to justify it. Hopefully that'll be soon enough, since I'm Done With School Forever in a few weeks.

The subject nails it, mostly. As a student, neither is in the budget in the near term. I'm just trying to help myself out mentally, by setting a general date as to when I might reasonably be on the water. Is there a rule of thumb for this? The Google has some answers, but I was looking for some local knowledge.