Onion River Exploration Project: 2018

Heading up the River

Day 1 (7/3/18)

It looks like it has been over a year since I have added anything to my Onion River Project blog. The truth is that for the last couple years we have not had a lot of opportunity to do any kayaking and the few times we have gone out I guess I haven’t blogged about it. We are hoping to change that this year. Our grandson turned five this year so we are hoping that wee can actually take him along on short hikes and start getting him used to it. He just finished his first year of swimming lessons and seems to love water. When we got up this morning it was a perfect Wisconsin summer day. There was hardly a cloud in the sky and the temperature was pushing toward the eighties. We had loaded everything yesterday so after breakfast we hit the road. We decided to go to Gerber Lake, north of Plymouth. It has always been one of our favorites and we had not been there for a couple of years. Little had changed when we got to the lake. We started across the lake headed for the strait that would give us entrance to the second lake. Before we got there we managed to scare up a Great Blue Heron so we spent a little time stalking him. They are one of my favorite birds. Finally he flew the other direction so we continued on to the other lake. On the far side of the other lake is a small river that flows into it. That was our destination. Because of our lack of rain the water was low and we wernt able to go as far up it as we had in the past. We went as far as we could and then headed back to the lake and I did some fishing while Eileen yaked around photographing all the curiosities. Gerber has always been a lake with many natural deadwood sculptures. Some our old favorites like “Naked Lady” had finally succumbed to nature and were replaced by others. We will have to get back there soon to spend more time looking at some of the new ones. We eventually had to make our way back to the dock but were happy the we had the opportunity to take in Gerber again.