That’s me in the foreground, then my brother, and then his wife Rachel. What with this resort being deluxe and all, the girls are in morning childcare.
Something radical (and, maybe good) has happened to the ecology on this lake in the last 30 years. There were essentially no big birds here when I was a kid… one loon on the lake, and the occasional pelican. This morning before the speed boats fired up I could see herons, ospreys, and two eagles from my current seat, as well as hear the call of a couple of piliated woodpeckers in the pines to my right. Fishing with the girls, it’s obvious that the 80/20 ratio of yellow perch to sunfish when I fished here has flipped to 20:80.