June 26, 2011 Lake Algonquin

     It's been several weeks since we've been kayaking. On June 11th our daughter Erin got married. On June 13th we traveled to Washington state for a week. We're back now and ready to get some kayak trips in. Hopefully the weather will cooperate!
     We met the Yakkers and headed to Lake Algonquin in Wells, NY. Wells is right before you get to the town of Speculator. We parked at the beach and launched our kayaks. The water was nice and calm, so no real waves. Just the water we were looking for!

Gary & Tim

Nance & Tim

Lake Algonquin is a small lake. It has quite a few houses on it though. They vary quite a bit in size. The view is beautiful. Mountains in the distance make a wonderful back drop.

On our way around the main section of the Lake, there were several Canada Geese and babies. They were so adorable. They were still pretty fuzzy.

These baby geese were pretty large.

Thes babies were quite a bit smaller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We headed back towards the beach area. We paddled under the new bridge and waited for everyone to get back together. We surprised Megan and sang Happy Birthday to her. Can't ignore her birthday (she turned 23)

The birthday girl

We paddled farther north. There were fewer houses in this section. The left side was natural with a large beaver lodge in the grass.  No sign of any beavers, though. It was much narrower in this section. This would be a nice area to have a house. Pretty quiet back there and few houses. We actually saw one that we might put an offer on. We're thinking ahead to retirement. This could be it! What do you think??

A little slice of paradise!

 

It even comes with a picnic table! We would have to improve the launch area though. It has a front AND a back door. Have to keep safety in mind.

     This was a very nice paddle. It was a shorter than many of the paddles we do, but sometimes that is nice. We loaded up our cars and headed home to get ready to celebrate Megan's birthday. It was grilled pizza night, by request. We did the prep... Megan did the grilling!