Last Sunday, the 15th, around noon, I was heading from Melvin Bay towards the Graveyard. As I came by Black Island there were several boats stopped and I noticed something low in the water that took me a few seconds to identify it as a seaplane. He was coming from the shallows over by Black Island and headed towards Hersey Point. We noted that he was very low in the water as the base of his wings were barely out of the water and my daughter thought the front looked quite low. My thought was that it looked like he had taken on water when he landed. He taxied very slowly over to Hersey Point and it looked like he beached it in a shallow cove area.
We continued on our ride and returned thru that area over an hour later. The plane was still there, but there was no sign of any change and it didn't appear that there was any MP or anyone else official looking around so I figured it couldn't be much of anything.
All I can speculate is that the wind was kicking the lake up some and possibly when he landed over by Black Island he caught a rock and beached it to prevent it from sinking.
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