December 28, 2009
Frosty Ramble 'Round Deer Lake
Combating the seasonal overeating, Yumi and I trundled all the way to Deer Lake and back, doing the route in a bit less than three hours. It was a frosty, cloudy day, but I worked up a good sweat, fell on my butt on the icy Sperling stairs, and got a few decent shots, too.
View from the canoe dock
Frosty mooring cleat
Yumi testing the ice near the beach
Frozen cattails near the beach
Foggy view of Metrotown from the north shore of the lake
Spotted this little furball sneaking through tunnels of grass
near the trail - a vole?
Frozen dew
We were surprised to see a salmon carcass in
Buckingham Creek near the beach parking lot.
We've never seen salmon in the Deer Lake area.
Unfortunately, we were unable to get at it to ID it.