July 5--Patricia & Pyramid Lakes

Patricia Lake, which I am sure is named after my beautiful granddaughter, is several shades of blues and greens.
However, we launched the canoe on Pyramid Lake, which is guarded by Pyramid Mountain, a very unusual rust-colored peak. As you can see, the lake has a beach! Imagine a beach on an alpine lake--that blew me away. Lots of folks were swimming although I thought the water was freezing. Chewey went for her first canoe ride and actually did very well. She sat in the bow of the canoe with me. Forrest and I tried fishing, but the rods really bugged Chewey, so Forrest dropped us off at the beach and took off on his own. In true Forrest fashion he drifted far away from the beach and couldn’t get the canoe turned around in the breeze. Finally, he was marooned on an island in the lake, and two ladies from England brought him back to me. (-: Then we drove over by the island on the opposite side of lake and reclaimed the canoe.

Beach on Pyramid Lake and Pyramid Mountain