Slow week here in Woe Be Gone. We don’t even rate a Lake.
We got out on the kayaks for the first time this past week. First time for me at least. Lise got out some with Stefan when they were in the U.P. Friday Lise and I did part of the Grand River and today we went with Molly and our friend Phyllis down to the Huron River in Island Lake State Recreation Area. It was great to be on the water in either place but Island Lake was the better by an order of magnitude. Hard to believe it’s close to metropolitan areas like Detroit and Ann Arbor. It’s a lovely stretch of river with clear water and natural vegetation along the banks. Lots of critters like fish, turtles, shorebirds, dragonflies, muskrats, osprey, and dragonflies. We had a turkey vulture just sitting and watching us, hoping for an easy meal. No Yahoos either, unless it was too early on a Sunday or the vulture already picked them clean.
Waiting for the Yahoos.
Dan and Grizzly fishing in the Huron. Dan’s the one with the yellow shirt. Decidedly not Yahoos.
Saturday I got out to Crego Park for a little odenating. Crego Park is a Lansing Park along the Grand River. About 30 years ago it was closed after they found a couple hundred drums of toxic waste on the property. It’s all cleaned up now and they’ve put in trails, docks, and a canoe access point. I’m sure they cleaned it up good but I still wouldn’t eat any fish that come out of the lake. Especially the ones with two heads. It was windy so there wasn’t too much going on dragonfly wise but I did get some pictures of a female green darner and a couple of beetles getting frisky.
Female common green darner. These things almost never sit still.
Frisky beetles. She wanted to eat, he had other things in mind.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 