Whitehall reservoir, November 15, 2009

This was a lovely misty morning.  In the summer, acres of lily pads fill the shallows and restrict paddling to the middle of the lake.  This late in the year, the acres of lily pads have died, so it's possible to paddle but the shallowest edges.  The circumference is a bit more than 8.3 miles.

Whitehall is very popular with fishermen.  You can tell the good spots because they are marked with  shoals of beer cans.  I didn't start picking up beer cans until I found a laundry basket.  Two Greenland "skinny stick" paddles make great tweezers for picking beer cans from shallow water.  Once I got started I couldn't stop until the basket was full.  That really slowed down the trip.

 

Just a few weedy stems remain in the shallows that were impassible in the summer.






It was a lovely misty day.




Beer cans and "tweezers"



GPS track - with the weeds gone I was able to travel almost the entire edge!