The air was thick and damp.  We waited until 9AM or so until there was just enough visibility to get the boat out onto the lake.  We puttered around slowly from the ramp to a sheltered bay and watched treed islands occasionally peek out of the fog.  The sun warmed.  The breeze pushed.  Our bay cleared and in a matter of minutes the entire lake was bathed in dazzling sun.  Beautiful. We spent the day viewing the Land Between the Lakes from the waterside.

We watched osprey and heron fish much as we have seen before but they also made many a trip to collect branches to refurbish their nests or build anew.  They picked them up off the surface of the lake or slammed into dead branches of standing trees and broke off pieces and carried them home.  Gar are rolling in the shallows.  Some geese already have goslings.   A beaver swims by and gives us a couple tail slaps as we float near shore.