Kayaking Lake Champlain

Another great day today. Since the weather was again forecast to be calm we headed for Lake Champlain, where we have wanted to paddle since the ADK fall outing last September. We put in to the Ausable River where Route 9 crosses it and paddled out the northern route shown in this aerial photo.Then we paddled out into the lake, which was fairly calm considering its size; but we were glad we had our spray skirts on.We hauled up on this sand bar and had lunch facing the lake with the Green Mountains of Vermont in the distance. Then we pulled the boat over the bar (the shortest portage we have ever taken) and traveled on the other branch of the river back to our starting point for a total of about 5 miles of paddling.

Then we drove the short distance to Plattsburgh where we did some shopping (naturally) and saw the movie "Julie and Julia", which was fun.