KAYAKING WEST FORK LAKE

Connie and I took our "Blue Canoe" (our tandem kayak) up to West Fork Lake and kayaked up to where Blue Joint Creek comes into  the lake.  We have done this at least once a year for quite a few years.  Get there early and the water is so nice.  This year was no exception.  Hardly any wind and got to see some birds and deer.  Not as many deer as we usually see, but at least watched one come down to the lake to drink.  Could not believe how many Canada geese we saw though.  At least 70 near where we put in.  I refuse to take pictures of these birds.  They are getting to be nuisance around here.  When I was young growing up around here, they were maybe not "rare" but we did not see that many of them.

We had a fire just up Willow Creek the other evening but I don't know what started it.  Picture taken from our cabin porch.

Lot of Mergansers this year with little ones.  

Connie having a sip of coffee while paddling on a very calm lake.

I love it when the water is so calm that the reflection is like a kaleidoscope. Where does the shore and the reflection part!

Very, very calm water.

Mergansers every where.  This female only had on baby but was always close.

An active osprey nest next to Blue Joint Creek provided some entertainment while we had lunch.

A cabin on the lake that the only way to get there is by boat.

More mergansers.

This bald eagle let us paddle pretty close.

Both of our yucca plants are blooming this year.

This rose was given to us years ago by my sister but did not do well until we transplanted it over by the cabin and now is really going to town.