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This morning I let Jo paddle me around this small lake by the campground.  They have three paddle boats for campers use and we took the one that everyone told us was the easiest to peddle, not the one in my picture.

The lake shore line is covered in lily pads and reed grass and the hard part of the peddling was just to get through that out to the open water.

This is looking back toward the dock.

This is a beaver lodge in one corner of the lake.  The small black dot on the left edge is a loon that was one of a pair we saw as we approached this spot.  We can listen to the loons from our campsite in the evenings.

The lily pads all over the lake are covered with these large snails.  I told Jo that we could pick up a bucket full and she could fix them for lunch.  She didn't think that was too good of an idea so we left them alone.

It was a fun short ride with some good leg exercising.