Our beautiful fall weather continues! Eagle Lake was calling us to come back for one last paddle of the season and it was one of our finest kayaking adventures ever. The wind never kicked in, it was flat calm, and the reflections were phenomenal with the leaves starting to change. We do still have quite a bit of smoky haze in the air from the Canadian wild fires, but we are getting used to it, although it dulls my photo colors.
On the southern side of the causeway, we were stunned by the experience of two loons calling to each other (I presume trying to find out where the other one was), and then a warning cry went out when a bald eagle swooped down to either check them out or see if they had any fish to steal. Twice we saw the eagle do this and then fly into a tree. We tried to find the eagle for a photo, but it was too camouflaged in the pine trees. After that the loons stayed quite close together. I did get photos of the two loons on the main lake and noticed that the female was changing into her winter plumage, or perhaps it was a young one with only one parent getting its adult plumage.
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Snorkeling for lunch...
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Turtle Island with Charles Island in the background:
Looking out from the beach, where we stopped to have a picnic:
We kayaked the whole lake and barely saw another person. What an amazing day and 82 degrees in October!
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