Big Lake Excursion, Day 2

Such a hot day! The scheduled plant paddle by the Lake Stewards of Maine had a good community turnout, but the extreme heat forced us to adapt the program - we all got off the water at 11 am, and canceled all on-the-water surveying for the rest of the day, as we were melting in our kayaks! Standing around talking to people was taxing and required extra sun protection!

We enjoyed admiring this 'ballsy' tree (burls, actually) on our way to the community hall,

where we assembled to categorize and identify some of the plants we'd collected during our plant paddle.

We used the afternoon to plan our logistics and strategies for the following day (it was nice and cool with A/C), and we also teased out some plant samples (all the milfoils) left over from the morning's event.

Then, oh joy! We swam in the lake, reveling in the delicious feeling of having heat sucked from our overheated bodies.

We had a full program planned for the following day after a sticky night in a sun-baked bedroom ...