Michael Noyes wrote: > Paddling out of the cove we followed the shoreline southward again. > We were heading toward the osprey nest. Unfortunately the osprey did not > return to their nest last year. If anyone knows why I haven’t > heard about it. They weren’t in evidence this year either. Even > the buoys that mark off the keep out area were gone. Not seeing any > osprey or buoys we were able to paddle up close to the base of the tree > the nest is in and get a better look. [snip] Questions: 1. How come no swimming in the lake? Is it a source for potable water? 2. What's with the "keep out" area around the osprey nest? We have literally dozens of these nests around here, and if you inadvertently paddle under them, the adults get a little wigged out, but return to the nest within seconds of passing. 'Course, we don't have many paddlers around here, so perhaps if we had lots of paddlers, we'd be concerned about how close people get to the nests. Normally the nests are at least 30-40 feet above the water, and sometimes 80-100 feet off. 3. (This may be for Jackie.) What's with the "weren’t" stuff above? Is that gibberish in the middle of "weren't" some sort of substitute for an apostrophe in HTML or something? -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 02:55 AM 5/2/01 -0700, Dave Kruger wrote: >Michael Noyes wrote: > >> Paddling out of the cove we followed the shoreline southward again. >> We were heading toward the osprey nest. Unfortunately the osprey did not >> return to their nest last year. If anyone knows why I haven’t >> heard about it. They weren’t in evidence this year either. Even >> the buoys that mark off the keep out area were gone. Not seeing any >> osprey or buoys we were able to paddle up close to the base of the tree >> the nest is in and get a better look. [snip] > >Questions: > >1. How come no swimming in the lake? Is it a source for potable water? That appears to be an east coast thing. Near my house is a decent sized lake, about 8 miles around the edge. Along one side of the lake there is a fairly busy road. There is no swimming allowed, and boating is by permit only. For boats they only allow canoes and rowboats. Kayaks are explicitly disallowed. Any motorized boats must use electric motors. The lake is the town reservoir. There is a recent water filtration plant on the lake - ozone, big carbon filters etc.. Still the town officials are more afraid of what a little kayak might put into the lake than the thousands of cars driving along one shore, or the airport that has a landing pattern over the lake (the end of one runway is about 250 yards from the lake), or the trash incinerator 3/4 of a mile upwind of the lake... Kirk Olsen North Andover Mass. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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