Last spring I was invited to play music with a group for a fundraiser/auction for the engineering department of the U of I. Of course I bid on and won a three-day weekend at a the Dean of Engineering's condo in McCall. We finally worked the kinks out of the scheduling in the third week of September. Here are some kayak pics.
I like going to McCall specifically for paddling on Payette Lake.
MOSS (McCall Outdoor Science Center), from the water. Ok, some background is necessary. We got down there in the middle afternoon and after checking into the condo, we headed for the lake. It was 70 degrees with a 10kt SSW wind blowing 1 to 2 ft waves that were rolling at a 30 degree angle to the shore. I have no pictures of that because it was too wet and bumpy to risk breaking out the camera. Also, I have a newish iPhone, on which these pictures were taken, well later in the afternoon, by which time the wind and waves had subsided. Prior to that I was using the old camera. It's not so easy to get the pics off that and onto this blog, but I will try for that later. On those pics you can expect to see Nan and Elaine in their boats and a deer laying calmly on the shore less than 10ft from Elaine in her boat.
Another view of the cabins at MOSS.
Here's me in my McCall hat doing a squinty selfie over water with my new iPhone.
I will try to get a map on here to show the route I paddled, but I must have been on the water 3 to 4 hours because my butt was cramping up and the sun went down before I finished. Not near enough distance traveled. I have yet to get around to Pilgrim's Cove or North Beach or the calm, meandering river that flows through beautiful forested meadows on the way into the north end of the lake. Next time.
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