. . . To him who has once tasted the reckless independence, the haughty self-reliance, the sense of irresponsible freedom, which the forest life engenders, civilization thenceforth seems flat and stale. Its pleasures are insipid, its pursuits wearisome, its conventionalities, duties, and mutual dependence alike tedious and disgusting. The entrapped wanderer grows fierce and restless, and pants for breathing-room. His path, it is true, was choked with difficulties, but his body and soul were hardened to meet them; it was beset with dangers, but these were the very spice of his life, gladdening his heart with exulting self-confidence, and sending the blood through his veins with a livelier current. The wilderness, rough, harsh, and inexorable, has charms more potent in their seductive influence than all the lures of luxury and sloth. And often he on whom it has cast its magic finds no heart to dissolve the spell, and remains a wanderer and an Ishmaelite to the hour of his death.
Francis Parkman
Deer Creek Reservoir
Deer Creek is a great place to go for a relaxing day of fishing with the kids and wildlife viewing.
You can only access one end of the Reservoir by road, so it is nice to bring a boat if you have one. Deer Creek is a No Wake reservoir, but you can use gas motors.
A moose was feeding along the bank of the reservoir in the early morning.
This Eagle was battling Ospreys for fish all day long over our heads. He swooped down and grabbed a stunned trout that we had thrown back right off the bow of our boat.
Between catching fish and watching the Raptors and Waterfowl our day on the water went by way too quickly.
Deer Creek is a great place to go for a relaxing day of fishing with the kids and wildlife viewing.
You can only access one end of the Reservoir by road, so it is nice to bring a boat if you have one. Deer Creek is a No Wake reservoir, but you can use gas motors.
A moose was feeding along the bank of the reservoir in the early morning.
This Eagle was battling Ospreys for fish all day long over our heads. He swooped down and grabbed a stunned trout that we had thrown back right off the bow of our boat.
Between catching fish and watching the Raptors and Waterfowl our day on the water went by way too quickly.
1 comment:
oh man this is one of the things we are looking forward to coming back to, nature!
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