Some nature shots from the trailer 2024.

Those snakes are non venomous and non harmful. No need to go out and harm these. They are more scared of you then you of them.

ddude003 said:

I use a Kimber m1911 carry style with those same .45 cal rimless aka .410 "extra short" bird shot... Only on venomous snakes and threatening to strike one of us humans or dogs...

When I ran english pointers in the western US, I would snake break the dogs so there would be no Mexican standoffs between a dog on point and a coiled rattler...

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We had some torrential down pours move through yesterday. That's why I decided to house clean instead of going out for my regular walk. I didn't think we had that much rain fall but I am clearly wrong.

The pic below really illustrates the amount of rain that fell. Submerged under that red line are a path of rocks that connect both sides. The rock path is about 24" high at its tallest point. Totally submerged.



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I could easily stoop inside one of those culverts. Thats how big they are.

I got up this morning and looked out the back window of my trailer. I tried to catch the feeling with my cell phone camera.

Some pics from the trailer.. This is the first time I've had signets at my trailer. Although fewer in number than the goslings that hung about, their output in the butt-hole department is far larger. Definitely have to rake it into the lake after they visited.

Some more pics from my last stay. The Blue Heron caught a frog and swallowed it whole

My last nature shots from my previous stay at the trailer. My prostate gland got me up every 2 hours that night. I saw the moon shining through the window so I snuck outside as not to wake my g/f and I took a couple of shots at 2am

I was at the trailer for a full week from this past Wednesday to the previous Wednesday. I took my g/f up to Ottawa with me on the Saturday to look after the cats before heading back down to the trailer. We dodged a tornado alert in the campground


And if that wasn't enough excitement....



The owner of this boat is obese and has a heart condition. He got in his boat, started it up, reversed out of the dock and headed into the bay. About 100 yards out, he shuts off his motor, raises it up to get rid of the accumulated weed around his prop. He lowers it back in the water and tried to start it several times. Every attempt was met with the same result, a warning and no start. He pulled out his paddle and managed to turn the boat back towards the dock before giving up as it was too difficult for him I watched all of this play out from the back of my trailer. I put on my life vest, and got my older kayak (the more stable one) out on the water and paddled to him. I asked if he had some rope which he thankfully had. I connected it to the eye hook that you can see in the pic. he tied the other end to one of the tie downs on his deck. He through me the line and I put it around my waist and towed him back to his dock. My arms were tired but I got him to the dock. I was met by the campground owner and tossed him the line and he pulled him to his dock.