More miserable weather. The day started out nice but it started to rain on our way to the lake. All spring, the weather has been nice Monday to Friday but terrible on the weekends. Since we haven’t been out paddling much this spring, we weren’t very anxious to call it quits today. We waited out the heavy rain but it was still drizzling a little bit so we decided we would just paddle the north side around the camps. The rain stopped and before we knew it, we were on the other side of the lake. About 3/4 of the way around the lake, we could see the rain heading our way so we went full-out back to the boat launch.

It was really cloudy all day so I was having some problems with my GPS losing it’s signal but we figured that we paddled just under 8 km.

Paddling around the north side of the lake.

The rain stopped so we ventured on to the south side of the lake

My Aquabound Sting Ray

Is that the Loch Ness Monster? Is it Ogopogo? Nope, it’s a family of Otters that didn’t want us around. There were four of them and even though we tried paddling away from them, they kept swimming in front of us making very threatening noises. They finally swam in a different direction and once on shore, continued to verbally accost us. While we were paddling out of the bay, they continued to let us know that it was their territory, not ours. I took a few photos of them but, unfortunately, the others were even more blurry than this one.

Another blurry wildlife photo. The zoom on a Pentax W20 isn’t the best and I didn’t want to get too close to the deer so this is the best I could do. After snacking on the road for 10 minutes or so, she was kind enough to let me pass through and continue on my way home.