There are actually a lot of boats out there today, considering it's a mid-week afternoon, and the public schools aren't yet out for the season. For a weekend, today's traffic would be light, but it's busier than it would normally be at this time.
Hey, positive thought: Last weekend I noticed something I haven't seen a lot of since the early 80s... people with little boats. I'm talking rowboats with outboards on them, small Boston Whalers, etc. It was actually refreshing to see, reminded me of what it was like here when I was a little kid.
Maybe, just maybe what might happen is that the lake would start to take on more of its former qualities from the 1970s and 80s, and the tourism scene would just change instead of flop. We'd get more of the kind of crowd we had then, and less of the demographic we've seen more recently... but there would still be a tourism economy once the area's marketing people figured out who they were targeting.
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