Tuesday, August 05, 2025 This morning dawned grey and breezy. Our neighbors had packed up and moved on very early. Saw gulls chasing an eagle, and just generally hanging out on an island we have dubbed Seagull Island. Sat around on the hillside under our shelter, which has a cedar bough extending through it....kinda cool.

This end of Fourtown is very shallow, with long sloping bedrock that extends out into the channel between the two campsites. Yesterday our neighbors had taken chairs out into this area and were sitting in the water having coffee- looked nice. We went out and paddled around this end of the lake....looked like rain but it never did. After that Jesse hiked up the trails north of camp, and I went over to the south side rocky area. Found a shed snake skin from a big garter snake.

When I got back to camp Jesse had returned with tales of mythically large cedars in a huge grove, so we went over there....buggy but gorgeous. We swam, and I found a large submerged slab of bedrock that worked perfectly as a lounge chair.

Now we've had dinner and are just sitting by the fire. We've got new neighbors with a bunch of kids, but they're nice and quiet. It's peaceful.