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[Crawforde]

No more paddling the Peterborough this year.

 

[Superdave]

Beautiful!. I’ve spent a lot of time on and under that lake! And many of the nearby ones. Three years of fieldwork as a field bologist up there are some of my fondest memories. If you have a mask Chickenbone lake had some amazing snorkeling a few decades ago.

Wow! What an amazing experience that must have been to do fieldwork there! Were there a lot of leeches in Chickenbone then? They are voracious these days, attaching themselves to any exposed skin in seconds. There are usually a few attached to the bottom of the canoe also.

I've canoed across the inland lakes of the island three times, and this year finally had calm enough conditions to make the exposed crossing from McCargo cove to Pickerel Cove and through the Five Fingers all the way back to Rock Harbor.

This is what conditions were like the day I paddled out of McCargoe Cove into Lake Superior.

 

[Crawforde]

Yea. We paddled and snorkeled around a lot so picked up a few here and there. Some days maybe a few hundred, of course we were in the water more than normal people would be.
We were studying Unique Aquatic Invertebrate Communities of the Inland Lakes of Isle Royale National Park.