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| A very weedy Milwaukee River |
Day 1 (7/25/19)
We finally had a chance to get out kayaking today. It has
been a busy summer but that is no excuse. The weather was perfect. When we
first got to Mauthe Lake were greeted by a pair of cranes. We stop and
photographed them for awhile before heading on in to the park. As we suspected
the water was still high and we had to drive through water to get to the boat
launch. This was what we hoped for because our main goal was to go to our
little hidey hole which is only accessible with high water. In spite of the
high water the river was very weedy. In the ten years that we have been going
there I have never seen it this bad. I have some real concerns about the fertilizer
washing into the river. It seemed to keep others out of the river however so we
had it all to ourselves. We did manage to get to our hidey hole although it was
quite different from the last time we were there two years ago. It also had
much more growth and wasn’t as clear. You could still see the boiling springs
on the bottom nevertheless which have always enthralled us. After coming back out
into the river we headed upstream a bit farther but soon found it to weedy to
continue. It is kind of sad because we used to be able to get quite a bit
further up stream. Perhaps later this fall we may be able to check it out. It
was probably far enough for our first trip anyway so we headed back down the
river. When we got back to the lake we weren’t surprised to find that the wind
had changed and that it was once again in our face just as it had been on the
way out.
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| Our Greeting Committee |
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| A Pair |
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| High Water |
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| The Bridge |
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| Boiling Water |
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| Video Taping |
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| Water Lilies |
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| Eileen in the Lilies |
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| I love these but they are so hard to photograph |
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| Kayak Yoga |
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