Back to the Lake

 I went up to the lake for a few hours today and had a blast.  I paddled quite a distance but also relaxed a lot, just drifting nearly dozing.  Would have liked to have napped.

It was mostly kayakers and paddle boarders out on the lake, dozens of them.  Also, at Lewis Creek county park, the yearly water polo tournie was going down, lots of yelling encouragement, buzzers, whistles, and what looked to be a shark feeding frenzy between the nets.  That's what water polo looks like to me--chaos!   

The lake level was up again.  The water was clear and cool and beautiful.   Gorgeous day.

Late afternoon called for clouds return and right on time, as I drove home, there they were dulling up the sky, bringing down the temp.  Supposed to be this way two more days.

At the cliffs, aka high rocks, teens were jumping off.  I asked one if I could take a video of his plunge and he said sure, so I did.  Here it is.  He looks quite experienced at it.   Tossed a rock off first like cliff divers do (yes I watch Tik Toks of cliff diving).   

I once took that plunge on a dare, from the cliffs.   Kids were making fun of me.  Them up top, me swimming.   I had enough of it finally, got out of the water and climbed to the top of the high rocks, pushed in front of all of them, who were hemming and hawing not wanting to be the first to jump, and without hesitation leaped off.  Ha!    What an idiot.  I made my point.  I guess.

I jumped once from the 2nd bridge too.   The scariest part of that was climbing over that high round guard rail.  It may be illegal now to jump from the bridge.  It may have been then, when I jumped.

I no longer have any desire to climb up and jump off.  Mainly the climb up part of it.  Also I should mention, there's poison oak along those cliffs.

I found a runaway dock.  It was in a nice spot against the shore so I clambored onto it and laid out for awhile.   

I don't know where it got loose from.   I like it where its ended up.

After I got home, I unloaded the kayak and loaded some traps and went to the Rock Hill colony.  I only went there to wait on the Brownsville colony folk who were going to catch the only unfixed adult female left there this evening.  There's only tight parking up there so nowhere the cats won't see my car arrive and they know my car.  So I just waited up on Rock Hill. But, as I had suspected, they did not catch her.   Maybe tomorrow.

In the meantime I sat around with the colony caretaker up at the Rock Hill colony, watching her fixed cats race around and play, talking about this and that.   She has one, maybe two boys still needing fixed and I said I'd come try to get them Sunday.   My last appointments are Monday.   It was nice to see her and the cats playing wildly.   I took them to be fixed not that long ago.