In Pursuit of Wonder

July 14, 2016 Larry and I pulled into the Weaver Landing at 8:15 am. Instead of going up McCarthy Lake or going down Schmoker’s channel, we canoed the Weaver Bottoms. Larry backed the truck up to the boat landing. With Larry in the bed of the truck, and me on…

May 22, 2016 This evening, I went to the Weaver Dunes on my own, at about 5:00 pm and stayed until 7:00 pm. Going at that time of day, the only creatures out and about, besides people driving by on the road, were insects and ticks (I found four on…

We meandered onward up the channel. Larry said, “There’s an otter right ahead of us.” It was swimming directly ahead of the canoe, several feet away. We observed it for a few moments, only its head and tail stuck above the water surface, then Larry corrected himself, “nope, a muskrat.”…

The water all around us was dotted with green pickerel leaves. The point was to our left now, perpendicular to that is another peninsula of sorts ahead of us. That peninsula had only a handful of trees; it rather seemed like an island of dried wild rice plants beginning to…

“Goose, up close to the vegetation on the right,” observed Larry. I looked to our right. “There’s more up ahead to the right.” I looked and looked but couldn’t see it. “I don’t see it.” When I finally was able to pick it out of the vegetation, I was amazed…

Larry began backing up the canoe. It was a little effort to get it turned around. I pushed on the right side with all my might. Larry backed it up as I was pushing off a clump of wood and vegetation. With our teamwork, we had the canoe turned around,…

After seeing the sandhills disappear, we passed the open area with the geese, and came to another island of trees. A snag hung out over the water, the end bent down into the water. Larry said, “A muskrat on your left.” I turned to look but wasn’t able to see…

May 12, 2016 Early this morning, Larry and I headed out on another canoeing adventure, around 6:50 am. We stopped the truck and unloaded the canoe by the bridge on highway 84 again. We were finally going to give McCarthy Lake another try. The morning was beautiful, a little cool…