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Marlene’s Logging Camp 2025

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Once again, up early to resume “Operation Big Sky” — restoring our view.

The trees on the lower lot have grown tall in the past 23 years.

Flathead Lake’s Cedar Island Water Trail

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This is a 17-minute bird’s-eye view of kayaking the (approximately) 1-mile around Flathead Lake’s Cedar Island.

We like to kayak in shallow, calm water where we can see the rock formations below us — particularly in Montana’s crystal, clear Flathead Lake. It is amazing what fascinating colors and rock formations our “follow me” drone revealed.

You can enlarge this video and crank its resolution up to 2k if you have the screen for it (two icons lower right).

If 17-minutes is too long, here is a shorter, similar video: https://www.spetz.com/morningguyblog/2025/08/28/kayak-shallow/

Squirrel Bomber

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We live in a forest, yet this squirrel chose this particular Douglas Fir tree to de-pine-cone — right where I often sit.

Is this a coincidence or am I targeted for my previous unfortunate run-in with its cousin, Sinbad the Squirrel?

Kayak Shallow

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One of the many beauties of a kayak is its ability to navigate thin water. This is far more interesting than paddling out in the middle of a lake (an unfortunate all-too-often practice of kayak renters in our little tourist town). And, if the shallow water is clear, like Montana’s Flathead Lake, you have a rocky show below as you glide along.

This time, Marlene and I took along our drone and we were amazed by what it captured. We also learned that kayak-drone takeoffs are easy (but landings not so much 😬 .) Nevertheless, with some luck, we have so far kept the quad-copter dry.

IMHO, when you want the best kayak experience, paddle shallow.