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Originally Posted by SAMIAM
"...Random thoughts II
The guy who owns the offshore boat puts friends and family up in local hotels,buys $400 worth of gas,stops for beer and food,buys a few shirts and bathing suits and then takes the family out to dinner..."
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Having never been there -- or read about it -- I can't speak about the 'Jersey Shore.
"Our" lake seems to be trending more like Lake Ozarks (though more slowly), a Winnipesaukee-sized lake.
Old family homes there are torn down and replaced with condos. Many restaurants/bars (80) are accessible from the lake, and has many coves and long lake shoreline to loud-party (and
lewd-party). The economy is booming, and everybody
arriving thinks it's great. IMHO, Lake Winnipesaukee is relatively isolated from all this because of its short (therefore relatively expensive) summer season.
What is in our future?
Ozarks lake forum has a link to "all the latest boating accidents". (Lake Ozarks averages 8 boat fatalities a year, already having recorded one this year -- yesterday).
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Originally Posted by John Birdsall
"...Drive around the lake by boat and while the area is filling up, their are still plenty of trees..."
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But not the same trees.
While evergreens keep the soil and lake water quality secure, can you see which way the road connects homes built "nestled in the trees" 30 years ago? (Yes, there
are cottages there).
Where there were pine needles, there is now hardwood leaf litter on land (and leaf blowers) and leaf litter in the lake.