Holy Makeral I am tired! I got a slight eyeache. When I got home (5:30) I left at like 1:30. I was so thirsty wow! I didnt bring water after all. I was starving also. SO I drink like a 3rd of a 2 litre bottle of hawaiin punch and a 1/4 of a liter of 7 up. Plus another glass of hawaiin punch. I think I might start on some milk. Did all this without stopping hardly... Anyway to my journey report!
I stark off at 1:30... I Go across our field to the east and get on the gravel road. I look back and see if dogs are following me... nope cool. SO then i get onto the dirt road between two plowed fields that go to the abandoned house. I get to the shelter belt, and there is a giant puddle. A little squirrel is drinking from it. It runs away. Then I go pas the shelter belt to a field of clover. I come upon a drop off that goes down to the lake. The cliff is about 10 feet tall. I see some geese and take 2 pictures of then. So I climb down. Basically the whole time I have been heading south. On the beach it is mostly all rocks. I am parell to another abandoned farm stead all that is left of it are foundations and rusting junk.There are cliffs here that block my view. They are about 15 feet tall and grassy. Finally I get to a giant cleft in the two cliffs about 200 feet across. There is a gradual incline that looks like water flows down when it gets rainy. There is expansive beach here. Lots of rocks. I look around for dead cows. Once long ago I was here and seen a dead cow. Anyway so then I Gradually turn East and it gets really rocky. (I am following the beach here the whole time) Its not to far this time then I get around a outcrop of rock and turn back going south again. After a little while I see an old old car. It musta been from the 40s or 50s. It was a teal color. I took 4 picks of it. The body was pretty good on the outside, but the inside was a rusty shell. I seen another car as a was coming down. It was perched upon a grassy cliff. Then a little farther that way still going south I find the resonably large flat beach sortof. It almost looks like quick sand. I was walking though it cause it was the only place to go. Hopping from tree logs and rockier ground. I then sink a little in this one spot. I am like oh shit! But it was only mud. Anyway I keep going now heading east again lots of rocks for about 150 feet then south. Then shortly east again. High cliffs here and mostly beach. The water is really dirty here even more then before. Its green and foamy really mirky. I see up on the cliff with is sheer and all dirt a roap hanging from a tree limb. It almost looked like someone coulda hung themselves. I heard a weird humming sound almost like a jet, but I couldnt see on. I had a few seconds of unreasonable fear then I moved on. During this whole thing it was really sunny and warmish-hot. So I move on. Then I got south east for a while again then head east again. The clffs dissapear and there ar trees to teh south of me. The water looks really clean and you can see to the bottom like two feet down. Its really nice here and the beach is huge. No rocks at all. I keep going and see a fence. There are two deer drinking on the other side. I take 2 pictures of them. I get closer and it says keep out nesting area. SO I go back but whats this? There is gravel coming down on teh beach. I follow it for a little ways going south now. Ahh a old dirt road I am in hogs back. So I follow the road. Its neat I am totally surronded by trees on my left and there is a reasonably large field of grass to my left and its boarded by trees. I get to the other side of the beach. I just bypassed a large walk, even if I did go past the fence. SO I sit down and look what time it is. MY digital camera say it is 3 oclock. Not back. I see the island! I look with my binoculars. There seems to be no obvious way to get to it. No land bridge. I wander what I should do its a heck of a long way there. It is like to the south east and I have to first go on to horese shoes like this-> .^>
The dot represents the island. I have to start at the first curveto the right of the dot. Its a long was round about. I sit and think what to do. I deside I got lots of time and I might get there so I go. I head west now. Its fine at first, althought I am a little bored. I see lots and lots of dead fish, then I see all these dog like foot prints and this the rock piles by the cliffs. These are only like 8 feet tall. I smell death. It could be a coyote den. I almost turn around. There is hardly any beach and its all rocky. I have to go close to the den. But I so dont be a wuss, and go on. I pick up a rock for good measure, and be as quiet as I can. I sneak past. I have to crouch on my hands and kness almost to get under a tree that has fallen over the path. Whew no evil killer man eating monsters here. That I can see anyway! I go for a little was and look down... whats this?! There is water seeping from the ground. HMM... I look up at the cliff and my eyes follow a big stream that is pretty wide. What do we have hear. A natural spring right in the side of a cliff. Awesome! By overcoming my fear I am rewarded. I get 2 pictures of it. My dad said springs are pretty clean I drank jsut a little bit. It was the purest water I had tasted. Cleaner then Lake Norden water I bet. It was clear also. Its really awesome I found that I never heard of no one talk about it. It goes right into the lake. It is pretty loud and has about twice as much water coming out as a bath tub faucet. There was a cave that the water came out of that was about 1 and a half feet wide. I stuck my head in tehre, but dindt go in. IT was wet. So I continue.I go east again. Then south there is a rocky point I look at the island here. I take the binoculars and set them down... I forget them. Then I go east. I see a house and 2 dilapitaded buildings. Someone may live in the house but teh buildings are in disrepair. Then there is a mini desert on the beach with scraggly bushes and cow pies. Its pretty big. Bigger then a normal beach by alot. I continue. Going south across the desert now. I remeber my binoculars, but decide to keep going. I come upon some cliffs that are really big sheer dirt ones iwth tons of birds in them. No trees on the top. Pretty cool There are many rocks here that go way up from the lake. I see a fence go to it, and decide to turn around I am in the bottom right of the top point .^). I cant even see the island anymore. There is a slight incline in one of the birdy cliffs and I run up there fast to see whats at the top. Cant see anything but grass so I fall back down again. I go back to the desert and decide to take another pick of it. I cant! No camera. I retrace my steps and find it where I ran up the cliff in a pile of dirt. I go back and retrieve my Binoculars, I look at the island. There is a land bridge that goes pretty far in the direction of poinseet from the island, but it only makes it about half ways across the island. I seen all three sides of it, but the last and it has none. There may been one, but I am sceptical. I think it is under water. SO I got back.I am killer thirsty so I take 4 sips from the spring. At this point I dont care. But I aint gonna drink from the lake Sick! Maybe Ill be like Tuck Everlasting. By the time I get across the hogs back I am dead tired. By the time I get back to the abandoned house I am a walking zombie. I am giddy when I open our house door, and drank like an anti camel! I was happy to get home. THAT was a good workout. I would say I went apromixatmly 10 miles. I musta went close to half the ways around the lake. I got sunburned On my amrs I guess. I think I am gonna go to sleep. I salute you If you read all of this. You must either
1) love me
2) be insanely bored
3) love nature
But whatever! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...bye...ZZZZZZZZ
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