Post by Grubb.
And this body of water, 120 feet down at its deepest, is not a pond. According to the locals it’s a veritable lake, Moosehead Lake, where we’re spending two nights in a Squaw Village condo bordering a golf course on a forested bluff above a beach.
It’s midweek, I think. Wednesday? This afternoon we got on a former steamboat (now diesel) with a whole bunch of people who lined up as they arrived hoping for a good seat on the bow, but then the Captain informed us the line didn’t matter, we’d be called individually by party.
We toured the southern half of the lake. It took three hours. The captain assured us that there were no better conditions for ogling the autumn colors. The temperature was in the seventies with just a hint of a breeze, and the sky was a clear New Mexico sky with nary a wisp of Canadian smoke. We sat port side in the shade on the upper deck. We passed the contours of a shoreline stretching practically all the way to Canada where the warmer colors of the deciduous trees rioted against the cooler green conifers.
We passed wooded islands accessed by tiny docks perfect for smugglers, or the visitants of some sacred rite.
As we reached the turnaround point, we scoped out the ridge of Mount Kineo which looked like the Sandias rising as a mirage out of the water. It occurred to me that lakeside Sandia Mountains would make sense in a parallel universe. What I lacked in a New Mexico dimension—large bodies of water—would be plentifully supplied in this dimension even though certain geological formations might exactly be the same. It was an oddly comforting thought to understand that even if I were in a different world, there were sights that were recognizable.
A sea plane swerved in for a landing on the lake while our boat neared the marina.
As we slowed down to dock, we passed what I would consider the future of what two-car garages will look like in Florida.
Some fairly useless trivia from Cape Cod:
Sunlight doesn’t make it to the bottom of a lake, but does on a pond. Or so they say.
That’s as good as an explanation as any! Question is, who determined if yjere is sunlight reaching the bottom?