Burton Walkabout

Burton Island, Vermont
44 46.60 N 073 11.76 W

Libby and I had a nice walkabout of the Burton Island perimeter trail. It is a lovely day. When we camped here with the family, such a walkabout was the high point of every day.

Skipping stones! Endless supply of good skipping stones!

How many freeze-thaw cycles does it take to produce this?

Alien life form? No; look closely.

Surprisingly, most of the camp sites and boat slips are vacant. We're used to this island having 100% occupancy most of the time. Is it the recession? Is is too close to Labor Day? No explanation.

By the way, except for one week in June, our strategy of coming north to avoid the summer heat has worked well. The day and night time temperatures up here are very comfortable without AC or heat. Even the hot week during June wasn't bad at night. We had no trouble sleeping.

This is probably our northernmost extent for the year. I'm fond of saying that our sandbox extends from 25N to 45N. We're almost there at 44 46.60 N, only 13 miles away from the 45th parallel.

See all of our pictures from today here.