Thursday, July 19, 2007

The Bobcaygeon Connection - Lots of Dead Carp!


Another marina, another internet connection ;-)

We headed out from Fenelon Falls on Wednesday and are now at Centre Point Landing Marina, in Bobcaygeon. The first photo shows the deck with a lovely view of the docks and Sturgeon Lake (+ A.G.).

A bit of rain overnight and cloudy today - a good day to do a lot of nothing. That is, unless your boat chores include laundry :-( At least we missed the heavy rain pounding they got in Peterborough yesterday afternoon.


I just had to share this one with you - Anchor Girl helping one of the Fenelon marina guys to bag a dead carp 'Floater'. Seems the kid was struggling to get the thing into a garbage bag by himself, so she jumped in to the rescue.

So far, the total observed Floater count is 5.

 

 Post Update: This particular season saw an incredible number of dead carp in the waterways through the eastern portion of the TSW, as well as Lake Simcoe. We had counted hundreds, but the number was well into the many thousands by the time it cleared up later that year. Here's a news article from the time (https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/2007/07/11/bacteria_blamed_for_scugog_carp_kill.html)

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