On one of the hot afternoons last week I enjoyed an excellent Nature Exploration trip with a family. They had been on the same trip four years ago. I don’t remember the exact details of that last trip but the boys all had great memories to tell me about, right down to how many fish they each caught on that trip.
Our trip got off to a great start as an eagle flew over our heads seconds after I had launched all of the canoes in Seven Tree Pond. We canoed up the Saint George River and into Round Pond where another eagle landed and stood on a nearby sandbar while we were fishing not fifty yards away! The fishing was amazing even for someone who does these perch extravaganzas all of the time. The three boys landed twenty nine perch in about an hour. Needless to say I was busy!
We then paddled to the big rock where we got out to stretch, ate a snack and dipped a few pond critters (always more difficult late in the summer and on hot days) with good results. On our return to Seven Tree Pond it was clear that the boys had all mastered paddling canoes if not steering perfectly. An excellent afternoon outing but a little sad because after Labor Day kids return to school and I won’t see many families between now and the end of my season in November.
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