Fw: Lake Champlain 6

Monday, July 13, 09

If you've tried to post a comment and couldn't.....I fixed the problem. Comments are now accepted. Thanks Pete.

Since Don Argay is about the only person I know from New York, I never held the state in high regard. However, the state is beautiful, and the people they let stay here are very friendly. The same can be said for Vermont.

Today, Daniel on ONDAS ferried all of us to one side of the creek so we could get a group photo. While trying to set up a tripod, and figuring out timers etc. a couple pulled up and parked their car nearby to go for a walk. Immediately, Tammi (cruise director) grabbed them and asked if they minded taking our photo. Little did they know when they agreed that there were 15 cameras. But they did it and didn't run for their car with 15 new cameras.

We motored back out otter creek this morning, and toured around the lake.

Since Tammi's phone had no reception, and mine did, I was assigned the task of communicating with Reed from NC, who is still on the road trying to get here. He called today, still 5 hours away, and asked if anyone wanted any provisions from Wal-Mart. I radioed the group on the VHF, and asked. Mike on Hawkeye requested some kind of sandwich buns, and Daniel on ONDAS requested orange juice with extra pulp. So I called Reed back on the cell phone. Poor Reed had to go to several Wal-Mart's to find the extra pulp, and did not arrive in time to launch today. Daniel couldn't drink his rum without extra pulp, but Dave on Lobstertales had a small amount of orange juice on board to which we added seaweed to make it pulpier. Don't tell Daniel about the seaweed.

The scenery is quite stunning, however, I've finally found a place with more clouds than Indiana.

There is one thing here that we don't have in Indiana. While touring the lake, I thought I saw an extremely large fish. Or something.

I got the camera, and caught a photo of it. Looks like we encountered "Champ" the Lake Champlain sea monster. This is an actual photo of a creature rarely seen by sober people.

T & P