After Sunday's 6 am silent sitting, Gary Weinstein generously took us out on his boat, a 30 yr old Starcraft that purred along unobtrusively. The view from the middle of the lake is remarkable; so are the views of the bank swallow and kingfisher nests in the walls of white waste lining the lake near Lake View Point. We saw several herons (great blues), and a quartet of turkey vultures picking through washed-up detritus on the beach. Spotted sandpipers' ringing peetoweet, peetoweet, peetoweet calls The photo shows a couple of bank swallow nest holes, selected among dozens which lined the vertical wall facing the Ninemile Creek outlet. Note the cedars, coming back, and I also saw an elm or two. Elms were cleared from the Point, according to Don Thompson, to make way for the Lake View Resort in 1872 or so.
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