For the last few weeks, I've been trying to get up to the Lake, and one thing or another kept getting in my way.
Finally, I got out there today.
Put in at Cattle Landing on Meredith Neck, headed down around Lone Pine Point, up between Stonedam Island and Meredith Neck, through Sally's Gut, around the rest of Stonedam, and back to the Landing. Beautiful weather, partly sunny, and with just a bit of a breeze.
Ended up picking up a number of tree branches and other assorted items out of the water. A miniature basketball, part of a water noodle, a blue plastic thing that I have no idea what it is. I also picked up a 5-6 foot long, 4-5 inch diameter piece of white birch out of the water in Sally's Gut. It was in the water vertically, so very little was actually above the water. I heaved that across my kayak, and tossed that onto Stonedam Island so that it can rot in peace. Last thing we need is someone's boat propeller finding that. Some guy and what I'm guessing was his family was fishing in Sally's Gut as well.
Adjusting Verizon's catchphrase for my own use, "Can you see me now?". With all of the bright colors, I should be hard to miss. Well, unless you're intentionally trying to run me down.
Between the lime green, yellows, red, and orange, I feel like a rainbow sherbert.
But if it helps me to be seen by other boaters, then I'm all for it.
So if you happen to see me out on the water, feel free to wave, or flip me the bird. If you flip me the bird, just give me a big smile, and wave the bird, so I know it's someone from here.
I know that there must be others here who have a warped sense of humor like I do.
May everyone have as nice a Labor Day weekend as I did today. I'll be working my normal 12 hour shifts on the weekend, so I won't be out and about.