Today was cool, ranging between 40° and 46° F, with a stiff westerly breeze. I dressed in long-sleeved layers and it worked okay, with just a tad bit of sweating on my back. Today’s destination was Point 8, for which there is a no-wheels policy over the entire point. So I stuck to the paved road to the parking lot. I locked my bike to a sign post and wandered freely on foot.
The pocket camera died halfway through my hiking around (Canon Coolpix S3100), so I switched to my cellphone. This is the same thing that happened to the other pocket camera I had several years ago (similar, S2600 model). The lens must extend in order to work properly, and the gears froze. I could hear it grinding, but it didn’t extend out of the main case. My new camera should arrive Thursday, so until then, I may try to lug the big camera around. I just need to remember it doesn’t shoot well facing the sun.
Point 8 faces south right alongside 7 and 9. There’s a bluff in the center, with a shallower slope off to the west, as this picture shows. Under the bluff is a narrow shelf part of the way, but not much to walk on with the water level so high. On the east side of the point is a narrow extension that juts out into the water, just visible in the background of the second image above. There is no trail out onto this extension, so you have to walk through thick underbrush to get out there.
I made my way out there and shot back toward the main point. The marker sign is just visible in this shot. That was so boaters could tell where they were way back in the old days. You could hunt ducks back then, but there aren’t any visible these days. We still have deer, but I believe hunting is generally forbidden these days. Sometime back a couple of decades, the conservationists got the upper hand in the City Council.
Out on that little shore extension the rock shelf emerges again. This was the only part I could capture with my cellphone. It was fun enough and the place is pretty, but I never got that tingle of natural vibe there. The place has too much human traffic to make much noise that I could hear with my heart.
