Into A New Horizon : Gathering No Moss

Thursday, June 21, 2018

Gathering No Moss

" A rolling stone gathers no moss" should be our motto. We are now back up in Ticonderoga, where we had a fantastic kayaking adventure at Eagle Lake. In fact we had an adventure before we even ventured out into the lake, by attempting to paddle through the lily pads of the creek that that flows out of the lake. It is extremely shallow and choked with plants that have big root systems. I led the way and Dave followed, and we actually made it to the dam that controls the level of the lake.

Normally water is going over the dam, but right now it is about 6" below the dam boards and the creek below it is dry in places.

Retracing our path back through the lily pads, a male duck came out "fly walking" on the water, screaming to alert us to stay away from its nest.

Meanwhile two of the ducklings escaped and the mother swam out and had to round them up while she too hollered. She kept going in the same direction as us and in the deepest water (about 6"), which of course we needed to be in. Eventually they veered off into the reeds at a wide part in the creek.

We made it back out into the western part of the lake...

In this part of the lake, the camps can only be accessed by boat. No moss grows on us, but it sure does here where there isn't much sun.

Every year a couple from NJ spends the summer off the grid at their camp. They even have a mailbox at the launch ramp.

I love how this cedar tree grew.

The glacial topography is amazing with the mountains rising up from the water.

Heading to the main part of the lake we went under the Rt. 74 bridge. The only thing we don't like about paddling here is that you can hear the traffic all the time, especially the tractor trailers and log trucks. Luckily nothing was passing overhead when we went under.