Here are some photos of my cottage lake, taken on my recent deer hunting vacation. It was three days of running the woods, chasing a whitetail deer, and ultimately coming home empty handed, but happy. The weather cooperated wonderfully, with mild days and cool nights, pleasant breezes instead of wind, and lots of sunshine.
These are pictures of the cove where I landed the boat, no roads to this place other than a four wheeler trail, but it isn't used much by hunters, just "yahoos" on 4-wheelers going too fast to see any wildlife. Case in point, a tent bag full of beer cans, left on the trail, along with a broken lawn chair, and numerous other pieces of garbage. If you can carry it in full, why can't you carry it out empty? To be clear, I am not blaming the off-roaders for this, I have no idea who did this, could have been fishermen or someone else, but it is disgraceful. It shows the complete lack of regard that people have for the outdoors they claim to love.
Sorry for that digression, but it just pisses me off.....I believe this country is being ruined by "recreational 4-wheelers" in ways far exceeding anything before them. Trails cut through deep woods, muddy ruts, water diverted, streams torn up, mud holes created and a lot of beer cans left for someone else to pick up.
But, with the popularity of ATV's today, politicians are loathe to do anything about it. I believe that 4 wheelers have a place, as do snowmobiles and the like, it's just the distructive nature of them that leaves me feeling lousy. It's not just the ATV's either, and I am not pointing my finger just at them. I am pointing my finger at anyone who goes into the woods and leaves their garbage behind. There is no excuse for this kind of behavior, and what gets me is, people know that, because no one ever admits to something as heinous as leaving an empty case of beer cans on the side of the river, or a broken plastic lawn chair. Until the ATV trail opened this particular part of the woods up to more people, there wasn't much garbage to be seen. Now it is starting to look like a dump site.
The local ATV club wants to build a bridge across the river. Why they need that I don't know, with the miles and miles of trails they already have, but that is the nature of the things.....anyway....that is my rant tonight. Isn't this a pretty spot?
Why would anyone want to build a bridge over something as beautiful as the above picture? Why...... ? and don't say "to get to the other side".....I won't laugh......
This is my favorite picture from the last few days, to me it is so invocative of the still wilderness lakeshore around my cottage lake.
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