Cross Lake, Maine (rated Impaired by Maine DEP water quality standards), is amazingly shallow for long stretches, which meant we could see plants along very wide segments from the shoreline out into the lake. We noticed different plant communities were established more or less in swathes parallel to the shore, so we needed to cover them all.
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Photo: K. St Peter
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Where the lake gets deep, it gets pretty deep: 45 feet. Our hosts did a brilliant job of ferrying us with our kayaks to the furthest reaches of the lake so we could spend all our time scanning the water in each assigned sector and not waste unnecessary time and energy paddling all the way there and back.
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Photo: K. St Peter
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Bunny and I teamed up together on the first day, and had to take shelter on the shore when a raincloud came over while we waited to be picked up by the pontoon 'ferry.' It didn't amount to much - we get more wet whilst paddling in our kayaks on a regular, sunny day!
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| Photo: M. Wescott |
I had a very special, close experience with 4 eagles in a cove around me one day - magnificent, and unforgettable.
One afternoon was too choppy and windy to survey,
so we used the time to identify plants we'd collected and questioned IDs on.
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| Photo: K & C St Peter |
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