Onion River Exploration Project: Two,Two, Two Days in One

Road to Boat Dock

Day 3 (7/9/14)

It is Wade Wednesday and we had gotten an early start on the bike trail which you can read about at: http://donurness.blogspot.com/2014/07/two-twotwo-days-in-one.html Wade had gone home with his parents at noon and Eileen and I had the kayaks loaded and ready to head out to Mauthe Lake. We had heard from friends that the boat dock was flooded and determined to go check it out. As expected to road down to the landing was closed and the dock itself was under water. In fact the road to the dock was mostly under water. We had fun wading around in it though and hiked over to check out the bridge over the outlet. The weather was beautiful. It was in the seventies and sunny. The only problem was the wind. The same thing that saved us from the mosquitoes on the bike trail was going to keep us off the lake at Mauthe. It wasn’t that we couldn’t have gone out if we were that serious. Our main destination however, would have been to the other side of the lake and up the river. Had it been earlier in the day and us more ambitious we probably would have gone for it. We have done it before but this was more of a scouting mission. We are planning on coming here camping next week and wanted to know how the flooding was going to affect things. We determined it should be “good to go”. We spent what we had left of the afternoon exploring the park and watching dragonflies. We determined that Dragonflies must be very territorial because we would see certain colors allowed in certain areas and others chased away. Feeling content that our plans for camping next week would not be compromised, we headed home feeling relaxed and excited for our camping trip to come.